Title & Author:

Monolith controversies : Pavilion of Chile at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia / edited by Pedro Alonso and Hugo Palmarola.

Edition:

[English ed.].

Publication:

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, [2014]
©2014

Description:

352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Monolith controversies, Pavilion of Chile, at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, June 7 - November 23, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: Monolith Controversies -- Pedro Alonso and Hugo Palmarola -- Panel Trajectories -- A Brief Personal Account of How the KPD Panel was Found -- Servando Mora -- Panel Houses: Stations on the Way to Utopia -- Boris Groys -- Signature Architecture -- Catherine Ingraham -- Mrs. Silvia Gutierrez's Apartment -- A Script for the Masses -- Alberto Arenas -- KPD in the Newspapers -- Women Steering the Wheel ... of A Crane -- Paloma Magazine -- The Writing on the Wall -- Adrian Forty -- KPD (2014) -- Videos by Gianfranco Foschino -- Documenting KPD Before and After 1973 -- Nolberto Salinas Gonzalez -- KPD Workers -- Photographs by Norberto Salinas Gonzalez -- Rescued by Technology -- Patricio Nunez -- Reading History in A Large Concrete Panel -- Eden Medina -- Official KPD Photographic Album -- Concrete Fetish -- Manuel Corrada -- What was Modernity? -- David Edgerton -- Twenty-Eight Systems (1931-1981) -- Staggered Axonometrics -- Axonometric Plus Extended Panels -- Catalog of Panels.

Summary:

"A large concrete panel is the centerpiece of the Chilean Pavilion. It was one of the first original wall panels produced by the Chilean KPD plant. Donated in 1971 by the Soviet Union to support president Salvador Allende's Democratic Road to Socialism, the factory complex produced prefabricated housing components. This panel has since been the subject of several political and ideological controversies. Allende himself signed the wet concrete, only for his gesture to be later covered over by Augusto Pinochet, who hid it beneath a representation of the Virgin and Child framed by two colonial lamp fixtures. By bringing together the voices of former KPD workers, inhabitants of housing built with these elements, and invited authors, this book tells the history of this panel, thus making a fundamental contribution to the exhibition theme "Absorbing Modernity 1914–2014""--Publisher's summary

ISBN:

9783775738279
3775738274

Subject:

Architecture Chile History 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture Chili Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture
Chile

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
History

Added entries:

Alonso, Pedro (Pedro I. Alonso Zúñiga)
Palmarola, Hugo.
International Architectural Exhibition (14th : 2014 : Venice, Italy)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287374
Call No.: BIB 228388
Status: Available