Title & Author:

Unfinished : ideas, images, and projects from the Spanish Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale / edited by Iñaqui Carnicero, Carlos Quintáns with Ángel Martínez.

Publication:

New York : Actar Publishers, [2017]
New York : Actar D.
©2017

Description:

481 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
English translation: Vincent Morales, Kathy Lindstrom.
Introduction : Architecture non finito / Iñaqui Carnicero -- Constructing the unfinished / Santiago de Molina -- Unfinished: common misreadings, models, and types / Jacobo García-Germán -- About the notion of present in architecture / Ángel Martínez García-Posada -- Visions / Carlos Qunitáns Eiras : The physical impossibility of life in the mind of someone dead / Alfonso Batalla ; Standstill architecture / Iñaki Bergera ; Spanish dream / Cadelasverdes ; Architecture and resistence / Nicolás Combarro -- Landscapes under 30: transitional space / Miguel Fernańdez-Galiano ; Re-edificatoria / Adrià Goula ; Roundabout nation / Miguel Álvarez, Esteban García, Guillermo Trapiello, Rafael Trapiello -- Interviews : Amale Anraos ; Barry Bergdoll ; Sou Fujimoto ; Jorge Silvetti ; Andrea Simitch ; Martino Stierli ; Nader Tehrani ; Val Warke ; Sarah Whiting ; Meejin Yoon -- Unfinished / Carlos Quintáns Eiras -- Projects : Consolidate ; Reappropriation ; Adaptable ; Infill ; Naked ; Perching ; Reassignments ; Guides ; Pavements.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9781945150685
1945150688

Subject:

Abandoned buildings Spain Exhibitions.
Architecture Spain Exhibitions.
Constructions abandonnées Espagne Expositions.
Architecture Espagne Expositions.
Abandoned buildings
Architecture
Spain

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Carnicero, Iñaqui, curator, editor.
Quintáns, Carlos, 1962- curator, editor.
Martínez García-Posada, Ángel, editor.
Morales, Vincent, (Translator), translator.
Lindstrom, Kathy, translator.
International Architectural Exhibition (15th : 2016 : Venice, Italy)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 303036
Call No.: BIB 249232
Status: Available