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The Spanish Pavilion entry and Golden Lion Award for 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. It is a most timely and poignant exhibition that exposes the reciprocity and dependency of design to an economic, societal and environmentally layered context. “Unfinished” does so by the curated presentation of the modern ruins resultant in the aftermath of the global financial crises of 2008. A crisis that was particular crippling and devastating to a Spanish economy largely sustained by real state speculation, and that spun other social, and environmental crises. The curators of “Unfinished”, lñaqui Carnicero and Carlos Quintans, reflect on these modern ruins by a tightly choreographed yet kaleidoscopic inventory of structures, photographs and video interviews. Through these multifaceted documentation, we are able to draw a new understanding of the types of effects and influences that define our environment and practices, particularly as they may be affected by underpinning conditions, e.g. financial speculation. It is here that exhibition also posits an optimistic outlook: As complement to the modern ruins depiction, the curators have assembled a set of extraordinary projects that define new reflexive design strategies as adaptations and critiques of these crises. The show is a reckoning of negative operative nature of the design practices as unmediated tools of speculation. It is also a demonstration of the fragility of architecture; and ultimately, it is a a validation of innovative and engaged practices that have parsed through the wreckage to find a voice.

Julio Salcedo-Fernandez – Chair

Special Thanks to: The Spanish Ministries of Fomento, Foreign Affairs, Acción Cultural Española, the New York City Major’s Office, Michael Miller – Director of Undergraduate Affairs, lñaqui Carnicero – Curator and Visiting Professor at Spitzer -, Dean Gordon Gebert; and, to the exhibition team of students and professionals.

UNFINISHED Spanish Pavilion

5th lnternational Architecture Exhibition

May 28 — November 27, 2016

La Biennale di Venezia 2016

Spain is 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 va/id resultad 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.

Using photography as a filter to portray this reality, the Pavilion’s central space represents the optimistic view of those who have fought back against this recent past, understanding these inherited constructions as an oppor­tunity.

The ”Unfinished” exhibition, presentad in the Spanish pavilion at the Biennale, seeks to direct attention to pro­cesses more than results in an attempt to discover design strategies generated by an optimistic view of the con­structed environment.

The exhibition gathers examples of architecture produced during the post few years, born out of renunciation and economy of means, designad to evo/ve and adapt to future necessities and trusting in the beauty conferred by the passage of time. These projects hove understood the lessons of the recent post and consider architecture to be something unñnished, in a constant state of evolution and truly in the service of humanity. The current moment of uncertainty in our profession makes its consideration here especial/y relevant.

lñaqui Carnicero, Carlos Quintáns

Promotor/Sponsor

Gobierno de España MINISTERIO DE FOMENTO Secretaría de Estado de Infraestructuras, Transportes y Vivienda Dirección General de Arquitectura, Vivienda y Suelo

Government of Spain MINISTRY OF DEVELOPMENT Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing General direction of Architecture, Housing and Land

En colaboración con/ In collaboration with

AC/E, Acción Cultural Española MINISTERIO DE ASUNTOS EXTERIORES Y DE COOPERACION

Secretaría de Estado de Cooperación Internacional y para lberoamérica AECID, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el desarrollo. Dirección de Relaciones Culturales y Científicas

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND COOPERATION

Secretary of State for lnternational Cooperation and for Latin America AECID, Spanish Agency for lnternational Development Cooperation. Directorate of Cultural and Scientific Relations

Con el apoyo de Fundación Arquia/Support by Fundación Arquia

Diseño y proyecto expositivo/

Design exhibition RICA Studio: Iñaqui Carnicero, Lorena del Río

Colaboradores/Contríbutors

Andy Fortunaty, Angela Posse

Comisarios/Curators

Iñaqui Carnicero, Carlos Quintáns Eiras

Coordinador de bienales/ Coordination of Bienials

Francisco Mangado

Comité científic/Scientific commitee

Angel Martinez García-Posadas, Santiago de Malina Rodríguez, Jacobo García-Germán

Coordinación/Coordination

Eduardo Aragoneses (Fomento), Sara León (Fomento), Menique Lambie (AC/E), Alejandro Romero (AECID), Alvaro Calleja (AECI D)

Concepto gráfico/Graphic concept

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Diseño Web/Web Design

Estudio Caravana

Traducción/Trans/atíon

Kathy Lindstrom

Soporte técnico de entrevistas/ Technical support for the interviews

Elena Toumayan, Johanna Grazel, Matthew Sokol

Impresión/ Printing

Museoteca

Producción y montaje/ Production and installation

Luigi D1 0ro & ARGUZIA S.r.l. con/with Flaminio Bovino ( Engineering), Mario Cristofaro (Videomapping producción), Giovanni Spagnoletti, Chiara Mazzarella, Micol Riva

Year 2018

Client RICA studio

Status Completed works

Type Trade Fair Centres / Pavilions / Exhibition Design / Exhibitions /Installations