A new issue of the COAC’s magazine
Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme has been published, which is now available to members at the various Association offices. This is issue number 271, entitled
About Buildings & Food. Edited by the architect
Xavier Monteys, the latest
Quaderns looks at the relationship between food, architecture and the city.
The pages of the new issue include a variety of different articles: a conversation between Nuria Ortigosa, David Steegmann and
Carolyn Steel, who has consistently been the most outspoken architect on the connection between food and the city; two articles by
Eulàlia Gómez and
Pere Fuertes on the role of food in how the city is organized, as expressed by the positioning of Barcelona's markets; and an article by
Magda Mària, who uses images of paintings, drawings and photos to highlight the presence of food as a long-standing tradition in Barcelona.
David Steegmann also considers the current transformations that affect markets as communal spaces, as evidenced in La Boqueria; as well as
Nuria Ortigosa's article on changes affecting home life with the growing tendency to have meals delivered. The subject of ready meals is covered in two pieces by
Roger Sauquet and
Núria Salvadó rounds off the region's relationship with food.
Added to these contributions are two more on organizing the household based around two essential elements, the dining room and the table: the Lisbon scenario, explained by
Carlos Dias Coelho, linking changes to the dining room with the urban fabric, and a small collection of European tables put together by
Stephen Bates. Finally, there is a piece by
Gianluca Burgio on literature that bases its reflections around eating and food.
Upcoming issues The next issues of the magazine will be produced by the winning teams of the
competition run last year by the Association: Josep Ferrando and Marta Poch (no. 272) and Ferran Grau, Núria Casais and Rafa Mateo (no. 273).