![]() ![]() Como resultado, el edificio desafía las nociones modernas al presentar el vidrio como una pantalla temporal y efímera y un velo opaco condensado, debido a su contexto y contenido." Utilizando como enfoque central la Nueva Galería Nacional de Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, en Berlín, se argumenta que, en realidad, los edificios transparentes no siempre permiten una visión clara, flujo libre, circulación, conexión y accesibilidad. *"Este artículo evalúa el dilema entre las intenciones y los resultados, basado en el debate de transparencia que recientemente ha resurgido en la realización de una lectura crítica de los textos esenciales de la historia arquitectónica. As a result, the building challenges modern notions by presenting glass as an ephemeral and temporal reflective screen and a condensed opaque veil due to its context and content. Using the New National Gallery by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, in Berlin, as the central focus, it argues that, in reality, transparent buildings do not always allow clear vision, free flow, circulation, connection, and accessibility. This article evaluates the dilemma between intentions and outcomes, based on the transparency debate that has recently resurfaced, by undertaking a critical reading of essential architectural history texts. Coppelia, the Bacardi Building, the Malecón, the Tropicana Club, and the National Art Schools comprise the architectural projects examined in the show. The show features a series of exchanges examined through five architectural projects that redefined (and continue to shape) Havana’s urban ecosystem and the discipline of architecture at large, in terms of the social contracts these projects laid out, the ideas about modernity that they radically confronted, their impact on the economy as well as gender and sexuality, in addition to diverse notions of privacy, diplomacy, aesthetics, geopolitics, race, and development. Liquid La Habana presents five different case studies from the late 19th century until today that challenge these interpretations. Architecture in La Habana, Cuba is usually understood from the point of view of colonialism, Cold War politics, tourist economies, and ideologies. When does the Cuban republic end and when does the revolution start when thinking about Havana's architecture? Might architecture challenge our sense of endings and beginnings? The exhibition proposes to think through five different case studies from Havana that are associated with different types of fluids, and that invoke more fluid and less rigid perceptions. We carried out field work, interviews, project reconstruction, and newspaper and archival work, which led to the production of two simultaneous publications designed by Fru*Fru: one with texts, credits, and maps of the exhibition and the projects it examines, and another that functions as a reader, edited and translated by myself, which contained selected texts on Cuban architecture and urbanism in Havana, taken from various literary sources. Munuera, with scientific advising from myself, Ingrid Brioso Rieumont. The exhibition was commissioned by Beatriz Colomina, Bart-Jan Polman and Iván L. ![]()
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