In the heart of Sant Lluís, the unfinished structure of Sa Tanca still stands, an abandoned shopping center — a place marked by silence, yet full of untapped potential.

In the summer of 2008, I traveled to Palestine as part of an international delegation organized by several Spanish platforms. Our destination was Anata, a town east of Jerusalem in the West Bank, near an Israeli military base.

A private garden, a pristine lawn, a house identical to the neighbor’s.

The promise of freedom framed by a white picket fence. The domestic utopia that grew between highways and shopping malls.

The Suburbia exhibition at CCCB guides us through that diffuse territory, somewhere between dream and nightmare, where comfort blends with loneliness, and the promise of well-being becomes a disturbing mirror.

Markets have always been at the heart of communities—places where economic, social, and cultural exchanges converge.
 
Despite the rise of globalized commerce and online retail, physical markets remain vital, particularly in informal economies where they provide affordable space for traders and access to essential goods for residents.

Philippe Rahm’s Histoire Naturelle de l’Architecture presents an ambitious and sweeping argument:

that architecture is fundamentally a biological and climatic response, shaped by thermodynamics rather than cultural, political, or symbolic intentions.