AN ENTERPRISING PATH TO BARRIO CHINO

There are set around four generations of a fictional Chinese dynasty and their imagined architectural participation in some of the m ajor events in Barcelona's modern history. As residents of the Barrio from the mid-nineteenth century, they individually document di verse contributions to the city during periods of dynamic growth. This is set against a backdrop of cataclysmic political change and exemplary forms of urban regeneration which have provided Barcelona with its contemporary 'World City' status as it plans for the f uture.