Arquitectura Viva 286 - elii [officina de arquitectura]

The Madrid studio of Uriel Fogué, Eva Gil, and Carlos Palacios imagines ecosystems more than containers, and in the face of the climate emergency it seeks compliance with what they call ‘ecological contracts’: that every construction detail have a minimal footprint and acknowledge the existence of more-than-human realities. Under this kaleidoscopic lens the trio tackles projects at all levels, which Arquitectura Viva here arranges by scale to show different forms of a more balanced and empathic life. This issue’s dossier takes as its starting point the reflections presented by the Portuguese critic Paulo Martins Barata in his recent essay The Language of Metamodern Architecture, using them to present a selection of nine European practices that emerged after the 2008 crisis.