Post Like

The POST LIKE editorial reflects on curating the 1st Young Architecture Biennial of Catalonia, emphasizing a renewed and collective architectural discourse.

Revisiting the event and its exhibitions, it reframes the catalogue as a research platform through essays on image production, participation, sustainability, heritage, and materiality. This editorial accompanies the 1st Young Architecture Biennial of Catalonia, curated under the theme Post Like, which foregrounds the power of images and digital culture in shaping architectural discourse today. Conceived as more than a showcase of the 2023 AJAC Award winners, the Biennial aimed to reflect a critical, collective, and renewed vision of contemporary architecture, dismantling traditional categories in favor of thematic intersections rooted in prior research, material agency, and social narratives.

The publication extends the Biennial’s curatorial approach, transforming the catalogue into a research platform, featuring five essays by Marina Otero, Carles Baiges and Cristina Gamboa, Catalina Salvà, Maria G. Ruiz, and Pia Mendaro, who address key themes such as image production, participation, sustainability, heritage, and materiality. Following the Nameless Models exhibition, which further explored architectural authorship and imagination through scale models, architect and theorist Javier Fernández Contreras contributes a closing essay on media and interiority. The epilogue, written by Beth Galí, offers an intergenerational reflection on the transitions shaping this emerging architectural generation.

In Catalan, Spanish and English