This video is part of a partnership between ArchDaily and the Spanish photographer Jesús Granada. Granada's stock images of the Biennale can be obtained on his website, here. ArchDaily’s complete coverage of the 2016 Biennale can be found, here; with coverage focused on the Spanish Pavilion, here.
In an interview conducted by Jesús Granada, the curators of this year’s Spanish Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale, Iñaqui Carnicero and Carlos Quintáns, discuss their reasoning and intentions for the Golden Lion awarded national pavilion’s design. Titled “Unfinished,” Quintáns describes the project’s influence as “the detection of reality that we show only through photography, of what happened (in Spain) after the housing bubble, first the real estate boom and then the crisis, and how we can offer solutions thanks to the many talented architects of the many projects which have been realized in Spain and have been partially obscured.” The pavilion answers Director Alejandro Aravena’s call for national pavilions that identify domestic responses to architectural dilemmas that could be the solutions for other places facing similar issues.
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The 55 selected projects on view in Venice demonstrate what the curators refer to as "a chain initiated by other architects in the past and by existing constructions. And they are able, with only a series of minimal resources, to reactivate, to reuse building that up until now had been abandoned." The exhibition itself employs some of the same elements of minimal intervention and resourcefulness characterized by the projects being featured, with simple construction elements being used in highly versatile ways.
Spain's "Unfinished" - Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2016 Venice Biennale
