In these shared gatherings, Rafel Moranta will question new approaches to living.

How do we build our buildings?

Building is a very simple process of eroding the landscape, moving materials from one place to another, and placing them in an orderly manner. Are we doing it right?

If you can avoid building, avoid it!

“Seven Lamps of architecture”. John Ruskin. Published in May 1849

How do we inhabit our buildings?

The basic elements to live are: air, water and food. Detached from them, the decorations.

«In the house that does not have a bed, what is valuable is the rug on which its inhabitants cover themselves at night, and in the car without seats, it is the cushion that is placed on the floor. In our well-equipped houses there is no space for what is valuable because there is no margin of freedom to offer their services.»

Letter from Walter Benjamín, visiting Ibiza

How do we wrap our buildings?

Sometimes with private spaces and others with shared streets and squares. But have we lost the connection with nature? Have we lost streets and squares to share?

«Do not think that the small garden is a psychosis of the moment. For all future times, the piece of land that man has built for himself will remain what it is today: the escape towards mother nature, its true fortune and its only joy»

Article “The day of the settler”. April 1921. Adolf Loos. Writings II (1910-1932).

We will fill this Espai Buit with whoever can share very or uninteresting experiences with us…