Stadium: A building that renders the image of a city – Un edificio que visualiza la imagen de una ciudad (ed. Alejandra Celedón & Stephannie Fell; Park Books 2018) presents the exhibition for the Chilean Pavilion at the Sixteenth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Contributions by Alejandra Celedón, Stephannie Fell, Marina Lathouri, Valentina Rozas-Krause, Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió, Daniel Talesnik, Anthony Vidler, and Alejandro Zambra.
Chile’s National Stadium was a building and a city for one day. On the 29th of September 1979, the building was filled by 37,000 people for a massive operative which provided ownership titles to dwellers (pobladores), settling decades of makeshift land occupation and policies. A blueprint of the Stadium with the outline of shantytowns instead of bleachers was prepared, rendering the genesis of Santiago’s current layout within the drawing of a building. From sports venue and hosting religious events to a concentration camp, the exhibition recreates the different functions as a machine for viewing and revisits the stadium’s typology, congregating dissimilar groups and serving unlikely purposes. This is the story told through a drawing from an event of the past, which foresaw the present of a city within a building. The exhibition narrates a double story interweaved in one drawing: that of a building (with its dissimilar uses) and that of a city (with its housing development), both converging in one event.
– Stadium: A building that renders the image of a city – Un edificio que visualiza la imagen de una ciudad (ed. Alejandra Celedón & Stephannie Fell; Park Books 2018), book description
The text is in English and Spanish. The book is illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy is in good condition. The pages are clean, no markings. The binding is fine. The covers show only some minor traces of shelf wear and use.
