Architecture and Resistance, by Nicolás Combarro.
22/12/2015.
Book. Cabeza de Chorlito.
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A book and an artist to show us another face of architecture. Using photography as a recording mean, Nicolás Combarro presents this series of unique and singular buildings that repeat throughout the world.
Image of the book Architecture and Resistance by Nicolás Combarro. Photography © Nicolás Combarro.
Sample of Architecture and Resistance by Nicolás Combarro. Photography © Nicolás Combarro.
Sample of Architecture and Resistance by Nicolás Combarro. Photography © Nicolás Combarro.
Sample of Architecture and Resistance by Nicolás Combarro. Photography © Nicolás Combarro.
Sample of Architecture and Resistance by Nicolás Combarro. Photography © Nicolás Combarro.
Sample of Architecture and Resistance by Nicolás Combarro. Photography © Nicolás Combarro.
Sample of Architecture and Resistance by Nicolás Combarro. Photography © Nicolás Combarro.
Sample of Architecture and Resistance by Nicolás Combarro. Photography © Nicolás Combarro.
Image of the book Architecture and Resistance by Nicolás Combarro. Photography © Cabeza de Chorlito.
Image of the book Architecture and Resistance by Nicolás Combarro. Photography © Cabeza de Chorlito.
Image of the book Architecture and Resistance by Nicolás Combarro. Photography © Cabeza de Chorlito.
Image of the book Architecture and Resistance by Nicolás Combarro. Photography © Cabeza de Chorlito.
Image of the book Architecture and Resistance by Nicolás Combarro. Photography © Cabeza de Chorlito.
Image of the book Architecture and Resistance by Nicolás Combarro. Photography © Cabeza de Chorlito.
The editorial Cabeza de Chorlito is behind the publication of the book of photography Architecture and Resistance, a research around a type of architecture that we often put aside, we forget about it. Nicolas Combarro conducts a study through photography of a set of buildings divided into several categories: Architecture of resistance, Self-construction, Ephemeral, Contemporary, Vernacular and Politic. Unique buildings, with their own form and with local materials, but also with a repeating pattern, that transcends borders.
Architecture can be defined as any form of construction or alteration of the landscape carried out by man. Our architectural heritage is an essential part of our identity. ´Resistance architecture´ is a term that refers to a form of spontaneous construction where the structural logic is intertwined with cultural heritage. It is a free, unrestricted architecture that contains in and of itself a form of resistance to economic, social or political constraints. It also refers to traditional or vernacular buildings that remain standing despite have been neglected or even reviled.
Nicolás Combarro
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Author.-
Nicolás Combarro.
Editorial.-
Cabeza de Chorlito.
Design.-
Fréderique Bangerter.
Graphic Editor.-
Alberto García-Alix.
Photomechanics.-
Víctor Garrido.
Printing/Binding.-
Grafilur.
NICOLÁS COMBARRO
Nicolas Combarro was born in A Coruña in 1979, and he currently lives and works in Madrid. In 2006 he completed his studies in film, television and media at CES Felipe Segundo, Complutense University of Madrid, Aranjuez.
His works have been shown in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo (2009), 'The Line of Shadow', in the Moriarty Gallery in Madrid (2008) or "Interventions in Altamira Gallery, Gijon, in 2006. He has also participated in group exhibitions, among the latter are Conney 'Island of the Mind', in 2009, and 'About infinite space', in 2008.
He has received several awards, among them the Saab Award for the best exhibition Festival Off Photoespaña, in the Moriarty Gallery in Madrid in 2008 (award and acquisition of works), the Purificacion García Photography Award 2007, the V Prize of Plastic Arts Auditorio de Galicia in 2006 (selection and exhibition) or the IX muestra de Artes Plásticas Unión FENOSA, A Coruña, in 2006 (selection and exhibition).
