During the exhibition period, there will be different meetings/debates on the role of architecture in the present and future sustainability of our cities in which Manuel Álvarez Diestro will participate with different architects and architecture organizations from Spain.
“The Caves of Steel” is the name that its author “borrows” from the work of Isaac Asimov for an innovative photographic proposal whose objective is to capture the domination of the human being over the landscape, through urbanization. In Asimov's words:
“The Caves of Steel” is the name that its author “borrows” from the work of Isaac Asimov for an innovative photographic proposal whose objective is to capture the domination of the human being over the landscape, through urbanization. In Asimov's words:
"There was no doubt: the City was the culmination of man's dominance over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so arrogantly independent, but the City".
Isaac Asimov
However, the photographer uses it for the photographic proposal that intends to capture the same idea. The exhibition creates a comparison of the architecture of three Spanish cities and other cities around the globe, such as Tehran, Hong Kong, Seoul, Incheon, and Dubai, with the landscape that surrounds them by documenting the different stages of construction of cities and how they overlap with nature.
