Barcelona markets sketched
Making markets, making the city
04.04.17 – 02.06.17
Barcelona is one of the very few cities in the world to have a network of public markets conceived during the last three decades of the 19th century. Distributed more or less homogeneously around the city, the markets have become epicentres and cohesive forces of social and commercial life in each neighbourhood.
Moreover, their architectural diversity is a reflection of the city’s history and the development of building techniques from the 19th century up to this day: from the slender iron architecture of markets in the historical centres to the reinforced concrete structures so typical of markets in neighbourhoods created to absorb the immigration of the 1960s and 1970s.
The exhibition is based on the book: Barcelone, la ville des marchés, by Miguel Usandizaga, El Globus vermell and Sergi Garriga Bosch, and it presents some of the drawings included in this publication.
Free entrance
