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 Allendes 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 19142014. (Spanish edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3826-2)Exhibition: La Biennale di Venezia 14th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice 7.6.23.11.2014
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DAM Architectural Book Award 2014 | Catalogue on the Chilean contribution to the 14th Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2014, winner of the Silver Lion 2014 | A historical milestone of modern architecture
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Pedro Alonso and Hugo Palmarola |
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A Brief Personal Account of How the KPD Panel was Found |
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Panel Houses: Stations on the Way to Utopia |
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Mrs. Silvia Gutierrez's Apartment |
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Women Steering the Wheel ... of A Crane |
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Videos by Gianfranco Foschino |
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Documenting KPD Before and After 1973 |
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Nolberto Salinas Gonzalez |
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Photographs by Norberto Salinas Gonzalez |
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Reading History in A Large Concrete Panel |
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Official KPD Photographic Album |
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Twenty-Eight Systems (1931-1981) |
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Axonometric Plus Extended Panels |
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| Monolith Controversies: A Design Project |
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| Pavilion Credits |
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Adrian Forty is a Professor of Architectural History at The Bartlett, the Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London, now retired. He is also the former Programme Director of the masters programme in Architectural History. In 2003, he was awarded the Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education. Forty is the author of many highly regarded books on architecture and design, including Objects of Desire and Words and Buildings, both published by Thames & Hudson. Boris Groys is a German philosopher, curator, art critic and expert on late-Soviet postmodern literature and art, as well as the Russian avant-garde.
