Monolith controversies : pavillion of Chile at the 14th International Architectural Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia / edited by Pedro Alonso and Hugo Palmarola.

Title & Author:

Monolith controversies : pavillion of Chile at the 14th International Architectural Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia / edited by Pedro Alonso and Hugo Palmarola.

Edition:

[English ed.].

Publication:

Description:

352 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 21 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Pavilion of Chile during the 14th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, June 7-Nov. 23, 2014.
Exhibition curators: Pedro Alonso, Hugo Palmarola.
Includes bibliographical references.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Includes mention of the CCA in acknowledgements.

Summary:

"A large concrete panel is the centerpiece of the Chilean Pavilion. It was one of the first original wall panels produced by the Chilean KPD plant. Donated in 1971 by the Soviet Union to support president Salvador Allende's Democratic Road to Socialism, the factory complex produced prefabricated housing components. This panel has since been the subject of several political and ideological controversies. Allende himself signed the wet concrete, only for his gesture to be later covered over by Augusto Pinochet, who hid it beneath a representation of the Virgin and Child framed by two colonial lamp fixtures. By bringing together the voices of former KPD workers, inhabitants of housing built with these elements, and invited authors, this book tells the history of this panel, thus making a fundamental contribution to the exhibition theme "Absorbing Modernity 1914–2014""--Publisher's summary

ISBN:

9783775738279
3775738274

Subject:

Architecture Chile History 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture Chile Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Prefabricated houses Chile.
Architecture Chili Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture Chili Expositions.
Architecture 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture.
Architecture, Modern.
Prefabricated houses.
Chile.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
History.

Added entries:

Alonso, Pedro Ignacio.
Palmarola, Hugo.
Centre canadien d'architecture.
International Architectural Exhibition (14th : 2014 : Venice, Italy)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287374
Call No.: BIB 228388
Status: Available

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