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In February 2nd, 2009, the architectural festival Eme3 Collapse commissioned Fake Industries the design of an installation meant to activate and re-appropriate Caramelles Square for the people of Barcelona historic neighborhood el Raval. Since a fence —owned and operated by Barcelona City Hall— restrains the public from the square [...]

In later years highly speculative real estate operations have surrounded the abandon mining complex of Aldea Moret, a nineteen century industrial development in Caceres, Spain, endangering its mayor urban and architectural values. In 2007 the burst of the real estate bubble stopped the private plans to redevelop the site. Caceres City Hall took over the [...]

How to imagine a city in a time when its delirium seems defeated by the suburban lawn?

Or how to question the representation of a collective memory chosen by the authorities and carried out by the architect.

“Login Project” explores how to plug in the New York architectural scene by investing reduced amounts of cash. It delineates the connections, floodgates, speeds and behaviors that construct the city’s architectural network.
How to refute the idea of architectural success as a straight consequence of talent?. In times of crisis, why not [...]

“Free NYC Apartments” explores three different ways of to get an apartment for free in NYC, specifically a loft in Soho, a flat in the projects in Queens or a studio in Brooklyn, by faking to be homeless, practicing prostitution or eventually becoming a successful artist, i.e. Enrolling in the Right to Shelter [...]

The Department of Citizenship Recruitment was a New York-based network of underground academies for illegal aliens to be trained to succeed in the process of becoming US citizens organized after the approval of the US law HH4437:

Chunks proposes to re-imagine the identity of a neighborhood –Aldea Moret– through friction; i.e. taking advantage of the superimposition of different legalities, managing the empty space and unveiling potential perversion of the infrastructure.

Circuit! was a fashion catwalk that had not credit enough to enter the precinct of the Barcelona Fashion week albeit it was one of the partners of the event. It became a distributed event that took over the streets of Barcelona. Fake Industries, Architectural Agonism is proudly offering here the final collection ever to be reproduced, [...]