Ay Caramelles! ing beta 2.0 from fake industries on Vimeo.
SUPERFRONT LA website
Architecture Live Architecture Live! opens November 19th with reception 5pm – 8pm and will be on view through December 16. The English version of Ay Caramelles! has been possible thanks to the generous contribution of Andrew Chappel and Daniel Ruiz Esquiroz’s  voices, techniques, technologies and patience.

Sarah Maslin Nir “The Decline and Fall of the Bachelor Pad” at the New York Times

University of Toronto John H.Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design website

The 30th of November, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism will be lecturing at the John H.Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto on architectural research methodology and research on architecture without methods.

Architectural League of New York Young Architects Forum website
The Young Architects Forum exhibition will open to the public on the first evening of the lectures on May 14th at the Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue, New York City, and will remain on display through July 17th. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday (closed Thursdays) [...]

Architectural League of NY Young Architects Forum website
What matters right now is how to deal with the consequences. Think backwards, recall. Earlier foresights offer a bygone sort of delight: none got closer to this extension of capitalist disaster. Architects’ honeymoon with economic power is over and it is becoming an unfriendly divorce. We are left [...]

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Next Tuesday April 21st, 2009 at 6.00 pm, Cristina Goberna and Urtzi Grau (a.k.a. Fake Industries Architectural Agonism) will lecture on foreclosure fantasies, real estate nigtmares and credit dreams presenting the FINAL COLLECTION ever to be reproduced, renovated o redesigned, of the immature, generally ill-conceived and fairly sentimental DESIGN EFFORTS crafted by the architects, [...]

ay caramelles from fake industries on Vimeo.
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 [...]

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It is our pleasure to introduce www.fakeindustries.org, the archive of Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, a conglomerate that explores potentials of architectural agonism and false constructions. As it happens, there is a rather perplexing dearth of suitable entries. We, Cristina Goberna and Urtzi Grau, core and archivists of Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, like productive [...]