Many of you already know my position, especially the critical point of this subject; the authors and creators seem to have amnesia about the terrible consequences of their folly. Below you can see some links with lectures Deconstructing the Generic City, written or articles. Moreover, many of you will remember the article El jardín de las delicias, Garden of Earthly Delights, by writer and philosopher Rafael Argullol, published last summer in El País. The article is based on this book, which will be presented on Friday in Barcelona, and I recommend: "Modern Ruins: a topography of lucre", authored by architect Julia Schulz-Dornburg, and publishers are Àmbit Serveis Editorials.
There is a lot of material being published on the subject, and in this case, Julia Schulz-Dornburg has a particularly attentive eye and brilliant photos. Her journey through this "journey of the Argonauts" in search of the "Golden Fleece" is particularly shocking and with tremendous graphic bluntness. On the other hand, it is difficult not to mention the famous "Walk on the monuments of Passaic" by Robert Smithson in 1967 and its poetic, visual and conceptual aspects between both journeys and vision of the ruins. From here my sincere congratulations and my Hat tip!
"Ruinas modernas, una topografía de lucro" is a photographic inventory of speculative construction in Spain, showing areas of land occupied by abandoned construction projects, the legacy of the burst real estate bubble. In recent years, the embedding in Spanish territory of massive leisure enclaves and all kinds of tourist and residential complexes has transformed huge zones of the country, not only along the coast but also in the interior. The premature decline of many of these projects is presented through images of disturbing beauty, bearing witness to the short life of real estate speculation and its enduring physical scars.
Venue: CCCB, Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona. spain
Dates: Friday 19 October at 19.30h
Free admission, limited seating. Tel. 93 306 41 33
