Unfinished - Iñaki, Carnicero

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Résumé :
The book displays the work of seven photographers and fifty five projects of architecture, presenting the problem through the unfinished constructions strewn across different points of Spain ?s geography, as well as five critic essays and eleven interviews with prestigious professors from the international academia. The dictionary definition of unfinished presents the following synonyms: unadorned, crude, formless, imperfect, raw, rough, under construction, unfashioned, unperfected, unpolished, unrefined. All of these adjectives conjure in the imagination of designers a new type of architectural intervention that perceives the existing built environment as a constraint upon which we can leave an important but impermanent mark. In this way, architects become a link in the chain of a structure's life. Through the concept of the unfinished, we may understand the desirability of a perpetual state of evolution of the architectures that define our societies. The architecture of the unfinished leaves open a door to the unexpected, and to ideas and interventions of the future - many of which we may not yet be aware. This book gathers essays and interviews with international critics, together with all the photo series and projects that were exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Inaqui Carnicero and Carlos Quint?ns, and awarded with the Golden Lion as the Best National Pavilion, that presented a selection of projects developed in the Iberian Peninsula over the last ten years that epitomize a new type of architectural intervention, showing the optimistic and creative view of those who have fought back against the recent past of economic crisis.

Biographie:
Active in both the academic field and a professional practice, I?aqui Carnicero has been an associate professor of design at the School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Madrid since 2000. A year after graduating Carnicero earned his first commission through a competition for the construction of a university building in Madrid, which was accompanied by his participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale, 2000. Carnicero has won several competitions and completed many projects, including CEU University, social housing, a high school, the restoration of an Arab tower, a district attorney's office in Madrid's City of Justice, a cultural multi-use center in a former slaughterhouse of Madrid, and the Pitch?s house. He is cofounder of the architecture platform Symmetries, relating roman and contemporary procedures. His Ph.D. dissertation focuses on Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi's discoveries in Rome regarding the perception of size in architecture.