Maria Goula: 'Architecture is a basic service for society'

摘要

Maria Goula is one of the founders of the European Landscape Architecture Biennial in Barcelona. She has been on the board of the biennial since its inception. She holds a PhD in Architecture and is the Vice Dean of ESTAB. JB: Can you explain the genesis of the Biennial and why you chose such a critical position with Versus (Biennial vs. Biennial) ? MG: This goes back to 2007 when we saw the beginning of the financial crisis in Spain. We were at the college of architecture in Barcelona and started discussing what would happen to us as practitioners in a world that is s6 dependent on construction. Most of the production of landscape is dependent on construction and therefore development. So we began to realize that we were in a time of radical change. We started to deal with these topics at the last Biennial, Storm and Stress, to fight the inertia that we saw, and the limited number of people dealing with these important issues.