Barcelona Lab

What is a city if not a big network of flows, relations and interactions? This book invites you to a journey through Barcelona’s network of creators and the spaces where they work. The photographs show workshops and studios, along with portraits of the people who work in them. Some of the spaces are immaculate, tidy and modern; others are chaotic, motley and devoid of clues as to what activity they might accommodate. The occupants of the workshops appear in separate photographs. The body on one hand and the evidence of its activity on the other. But the most interesting thing is the osmosis among the whole. When one believes one is contemplating a chemist’s laboratory, it turns out to be Ferran Adria’s kitchen; what looks like a junkman’s premises or a rubbish collection facility is a designer’s goldmine; a jungle of wiring is not a scientific research centre but a musician’s studio; what seems like a travel agency, replete with computers, is the headquarters of Vasava, graphic designers.