An architectural research practice based in Barcelona, working in publishing, criticism and curating. We take dpr-barcelona as an example of the breadth of architectural practice that goes beyond the preconceived conventions of the field. Ethel Baraona Pohl, "critic, writer and curator [but she prefers Professional Amateur]" - alongside César Reyes Nájera - is building discourse.
Take the extravagantly composed text on their practice:
The story of architects playing the alchemy of the words. We want to explore how architecture melts in the intersection with politics, technology, economy and social demur. We oppose to individualism, consumerism and accumulation. We propose to change the limited metrics that architecture is based on—sqm, budgets, investments—and pose human relations in the center of our debates. We propose complexities: to use poetry, empathy, enthusiasm as new metrics to understand the nature of our cities.
As an architectural research practice, dpr-barcelona sees architecture intersect with the real-world issues that so many classical designers neglect to address. Through printed and digital publications they expand the limits of media to push the multitude of discourses in every direction.
dpr-barcelona.com/
The story of architects playing the alchemy of the words. We want to explore how architecture melts in the intersection with politics, technology, economy and social demur. We oppose to individualism, consumerism and accumulation. We propose to change the limited metrics that architecture is based on—sqm, budgets, investments—and pose human relations in the center of our debates. We propose complexities: to use poetry, empathy, enthusiasm as new metrics to understand the nature of our cities.
As an architectural research practice, dpr-barcelona sees architecture intersect with the real-world issues that so many classical designers neglect to address. Through printed and digital publications they expand the limits of media to push the multitude of discourses in every direction.
dpr-barcelona.com/