The choice of the theme ‘Interior’, as the central concept of the Spanish Pavilion of the 2015 International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, responds to various factors that, from the curatorial team itself, are considered of the greatest interest. As explained below, it is a guiding idea capable of responding to the general motto of the Biennale (Fundamentals) and our temporal context, of placing the focus on architecture itself and of reflecting on its tradition and its future projection. Finally, the interior claims the disciplinary tools of architecture that operate on its own essence: the space and the material culture that gives it shape.

Talking about the interior is a critical strategy to assume the two statements (Fundamentals and Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014) proposed by the curator and director of the architecture section of this edition, Rem Koolhaas. It is a professional proposition of the first order that allows reconsidering the modern model in a careful way, at the same time critical or speculative. The interior as a research object connects tradition and modernity to extract not only critical conclusions, but essential keys that exemplify how to rethink the typological, constructive and environmental models, as well as the design techniques of the contemporary project.