Author Archives: Marianna Janowicz

Lacol’s co-operative housing scheme La Borda, completed in Barcelona in 2019, collectivises a number of facilities, including laundry, bathrooms, kitchens and guest rooms Credit: La Borda A guest room is a room for the unexpected. It can contain life’s many ambiguities or a tired traveller. A place to accommodate the ebbs and…

The contemporary open-plan kitchen may seem a utopian landscape of leisure, but the forces of capital eddy around the kitchen island