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Catalan Architectural Conference, Spain – Rem Koolhaas and Michel Houellebecq

15 May 2007

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Rem Koolhaas And Michel Houellebecq Face To Face In Barcelona

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The famous architect interviews the controversial writer in the symposium “TOURISM XXL. THE EUROPEAN MEGALOPOLIS”

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The next July 21st 2007 in the CCCB (Center of Contemporary Culture of Bareclona) Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch Architect and Urban Planne in the phenomenon of urban megapolis over the age of globalization, and Michel Houellebecq, writer specialized in contemporary social condition related with leisure culture, will talk about the future of contemporary new societies along the Mediterranean coast as the first European Megapolis.

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By the interview between the architect and the French author, they’ll try to deep inside two phenomenons that facilitates the construction of such megalopolis: the global fluxes as a consequence of popularization of low cost airlines and the increase of tourism because of Internet; the “turistification” of urban concentrations on the coast, and the re-conversion of tourist densities into urban areas.

Moreover, the two protagonists of the symposium will expose other main aspects to help on understanding the development of the Mediterranean Spanish coast, such as the new culture of urban spare time and its superposition with urban contemporary habits or the progress of new urban tribes that come from a leisure time society which have been developed in western “megalopolitans” concentrations.

Location: CCCB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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El célebre arquitecto entrevista al polémico escritor en el marco del simposio “La Megalópolis Europea, Turismo XXL”.

El próximo 21 de julio en el CCCB (Centro de Cultura Contemporáneo de Barcelona) Rem Koolhaas, urbanista y arquitecto holandés especializado en los fenómenos urbanos de las megalópolis en la era de la globalización, y Michel Houellebecq, escritor especializado en la condición social contemporánea relacionada con la cultura del ocio, departirán sobre el futuro de las nuevas sociedades contemporáneas en la primera megalópolis europea, la costa mediterránea española.

Durante la entrevista que el arquitecto mantendrá con el autor francés se tratará de profundizar en los dos fenómenos que facilitan la construcción de esta megalópolis: los flujos globales como consecuencia de la popularización de las compañías de bajo coste y el crecimiento del turismo a través de Internet; y la “turistificación” de las concentraciones urbanas costeras y la reconversión de las densidades turísticas en áreas de la urbanidad.

A su vez, los dos protagonistas expondrán otros aspectos importantes que ayuden a entender en toda su amplitud el desarrollo de la costa mediterránea española, tales como la nueva cultura del ocio urbano y su superposición con hábitos urbanos contemporáneos o el florecimiento de nuevas tribus urbanas procedentes de una sociedad del ocio que se han desarrollado en concentraciones “megalopolitanas” occidentales.

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