
Unfinished
Ideas, Images, and Projects from the Spanish Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale
- 440 pages
- English
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Unfinished
Ideas, Images, and Projects from the Spanish Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale
About this book
Spain was one of the countries where the practice of architecture has been most affected by the economic crisis. There are few places on earth where such large numbers of buildings were built in such a short period of time. The lack of reflection over whether these projects were necessary or valid resulted in the subsequent abandonment of many buildings when their completion or maintenance was discovered not to be economically viable. Their appearance throughout Spanish territories has generated a collection of unfinished buildings where the factor of time was eliminated from the formula for making architecture.The publication gathers examples of architecture produced during the past few years, born out of renunciation and economy of means, designed to evolve and adapt to future necessities and trusting in the beauty conferred by the passage of time.
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Table of contents
- Introduction: Architecture Non Finito
- Constructing the Unfinished
- Unfinished: Common Misreadings, Models, and Types
- About the Notion of Present in Architecture
- Visions
- The Physical Impossibility of Life in the Mind of Someone Dead
- Standstill Architecture
- Spanish Dream
- Architecture and Resistance
- Landscapes Under 30: Transitional Space
- Re-edificatoria
- Roundabout Nation
- INTERVIEWS
- Amale Andraos
- Barry Bergdoll
- Kenneth Frampton
- Sou Fujimoto
- Jorge Silvetti
- Andrea Simitch
- Martino Stierli
- Nader Tehrani
- Val Warke
- Sarah Whiting
- Meejin Yoon
- Unfinished
- PROJECTS
- Consolidate
- Reappropriation
- Adaptable
- Infill
- Naked
- Perching
- Reassignments
- Guides
- Pavements
- Appendix, Project information
- Credits
- Photographic credits