BARCELONA URBAN GRID
Before deepening into material aspects of the block the unit should be familiarize with the different formal aspects of Barcelona City. In groups, the unit will create an archive of drawings in different scales (Large, Medium and Small) with information about its urban grain, voids, density, and specially, the urban grid. A special attention will be given to urban voids and gaps on the grid. Readings on Barcelona history and an understanding of its grid and social structure will be also conducted to learn about its evolution and urban fabric configuration.
Readings:
Ildefons Cerdá, 2019, General theory of urbanization 1867, Barcelona, Actar.
Joan Busquets, 2005, Barcelona the urban evolution of a compact city, Nicolodi, Milán.
Joan Busquets, 2015, Metròpolis Barcelona, Area Metropolitana de Barcelona.
Joan Busquets, 2019, Urban Grids: handbook for regular city design, California: ORO Editions.
Manuel Gausa, Marta, Cervelló, Maurici Pla , 2002, Barcelona : a guide to its modern architecture 1860-2002, Bcn : Actar.
Tim Marshall, 2004, Transforming Barcelona, London: Routledge.
Peter G Rowe, 2006, Building Barcelona, a second renaixenca, Barcelona: Actar.
Josep Maria Montaner, 2013, Reader modelo Barcelona 1973-2013, Barcelona: Comanegra.
Francesc Magrinya, Fernando Marzaa, 2017, Cerdà: 150 years of Modernity, Barcelona: Actar.
Gary W. McDonogh, 2018, Barcelona. Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity.
Ross Exo Adams, 2018, Circulation and Urbanization (society and Space), SAGE
Documentaries & Movies: City for Sale (2018), Waiting for Barcelona (2018), bye, Bye Barcelona, Biutiful by A.G. Iñarritu (2010), Vicky Cristina Barcelona by W. Allen (2008), En construcción by Guerín (2001), All about my mother by P.Almodovar (1999)
