Cristina Gamboa is a co-founder of the Barcalona-based architecture cooperative Lacol.
\"We are constantly fighting with budgets, and are often left with what is absolutely necessary – a “pure” architecture. […] When the manzanas [Cerda’s urban grid for Barcelona] were built without architects this lead to a homogeneity, or even genericness, that we are comfortable with, maybe because of its lack of a specific aesthetic narrative.\"
Episode References:
John Habraken – frameworks of mass support
Lucien Kroll
Frei Otto
Francesc Rius – Coll De Portell Housing
Alfons Soldevila – Casa Mas Ram
Scaffold is an Architecture Foundation production, hosted by Matthew Blunderfield.
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