Cloister and courtyard: Centre dEstudis i Recursos Culturals (CERC). 1743; restored 1928-30, 1990
Courtyard: Centre de Cultura Contemporani de Barcelona (CCCB).Viaplana and Pinon. 1990-1994
Plaza: Facultat de Ciencies i Comunicacio, Universitat Ramon Llull. Freixes, Miranda. 1994-1996
Plaza: Museu dart Contemporani de Barcelona (macba). Richard Meier, 1988-1995

Overview
The site visit is organized around four individual but inter-connected courtyards (patios) and plazas (placas). We will visit each in turn, spending about thirty minutes observing, documenting and diagramming.

The analysis will focus on the following:
The architectural and spatial qualities of courtyards and plazas.
The strategies for restoration, insertion, and conversion employed.

I. Courtyards and plazas: between the scale of the city and individual buildings
Observe and document:
Spatial sequence: from street to courtyard to interior Circulation: axial, centralized, peripheral The six sides of the outdoor room: geometry, proportion, symmetry, etc. Architectural delineation: facades, paving, materials

II. Strategies for intervention and insertion
Observe and document:
Relation of old and new with respect to materials and their detailing. Identify the rhetorical strategy that is implicit in the way materials, surfaces, joints, and connections are used and deployed; The new physical and social spaces created through the assemblage of old and new. Try and relate your understanding of Barcelonas urban redevelopment strategies for working-class neighborhoods like the raval.