Barcelona's Uninhibited Inhabitation Vol 5; Honolulu’s Potential to Learn from Barcelona’s Caring for Communal Cooperatives for Democratic Dwelling in Decency (Humane Architecture - recorded on 1/30/2025). The host for this show was Martin Despang. The guests were Pedro A. Capriata Estrada and Martin Anzellini García-Reyes.
The discussion was: Honolulu and Barcelona are both maritime metropolises with many similarities particularly exploding cost of living under not unsimilar climatically privileged circumstances. With no 'Holistic Housing' near the horizon in Honolulu Barcelona respectively continues to wow us. The past, this and the following episodes will in following continue to discuss the shared by both cities upmost challenge of truly (in Barcelona) vs just named so (in Honolulu) social housing. The show continues to base its discourse on the related site observations by Jay Fidell in still socialist Barcelona in 1965 right before coming to Honolulu, Martin Anzellini in Barcelona in 2008, Martin Despang in 2021 and 2024 with the coverage of this and the following episodes. Plus most importantly by Pedro A. Capriata who has lived in Barcelona since 2004 and received his doctorate degree in history and theory of architecture from its Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He is a native of Peru where he studied architecture at the Ricardo Palma University and teaches besides his working with 'Guiding Architects Barcelona'. This show in the having to be sad tradition of the past ones has to start with assessing the continuously depressing new developments in Honolulu in this case the new high-rise being called 'The Muse' which is less than amusing another exclusive, invasive, hermetic, fossil formalist one so the inclusive, open system, bioclimatic examples continued to be shown here raise our spirits back up.
The takeaway was: Honolulu’s potential learning curve from Barcelona’s literally and figuratively cool cooperatives and sunny smiling social sheltering.
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