Lunch Lecture ‘The Barcelona Model’
location: BK City, Berlage 1
As part of the Peer Review Colloquium #8 of the Architecture department prof. Josep Maria Montaner is to hold the lecture ‘The Barcelona Model. Reviewed from beginning of democray to now’.
Montaner is senior university professor on Theory of Architecture (Barcelona School of Architecture) and co-director of the Master Laboratorio de la vivienda del siglo XXI.
The Barcelona model
The model of the city adopted during the Olympic Games period was very advanced in relation to the general political context. We must remember that the eighties were the years of the rise of a neo-liberal Right represented by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. And in the evolution of cities the trend was towards the neo-liberal city, promoted by the Chicago School of Economics and developed in United States territory with the predominance of suburbanization.
There are three main characteristics in the “Barcelona model”: the urban project versus the urban plan; the new and social city, the emphasis that was put on public space as the urban linking device; and the agreement between public administration and the private sector. But recent facts and events such as the fiasco of the Forum in 2004, the series of Strategic Plans managed from 1988 until now, or the Barcelona
Trade Mark from 2000 and the introduction of the city into branding strategies, illustrate the ever increasing preponderance of private lobbies in the management of the city.
Josep Maria Montaner
Montaner is a regular contributor to Spanish newspapers EL PAIS and La Vanguardia, writes for international reviews of architecture. He has been visiting lecturer at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London (1986-1987) and scholarship in the Spanish Academy in Rome (1987).
More information
The lecture is open to all employees and students of the faculty of Architecture TU Delft.
For more information: Nienke Blaauw
