The Recessionary Interviews: Spain's Josep Ferrando

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Josep Ferrando being interviewed at the ArchDaily office.

“Spain used to be a sexy, fit and energetic country. Envy, inferiority complexes, greed, arrogance and pride soaked it in fat. It is currently suffering from moral obesity.” That was Architect Manuel Ocaña’s incendiary take on the current state of his home country, one of the hardest hit by the Recession due to its extraordinary pre-Crisis construction boom (a.k.a “the mother of all housing bubbles”).

For this week’s edition of our Recessionary Interviews series – in which we talk to Architects across the globe surviving the Recession - we decided to get one final perspective from the Iberian Peninsula. We chatted with Spain’s Josep Ferrando, of Josep Ferrando Bramona Architecture, who told us how the economic bust has shifted focus from public works towards an architecture of “re”: rehabilitating, re-structuring, re-inhabiting.

Get Ferrando’s take on the state of Architecture in Spain today, after the break…

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Cite: Vanessa Quirk. "The Recessionary Interviews: Spain's Josep Ferrando" 17 Sep 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/272180/the-recessionary-interviews-spains-josep-ferrando> ISSN 0719-8884

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