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Aerial stadium diagram in grey, on white cover, STADIUM in black font to centre

Stadium

A Building That Renders the Image of a City

Edited by Alejandro Celedon
Edited by Stephannie Fell

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  • Accompanies the Chilean pavilion at the 2018 International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale
  • Investigates a stadium's potential beyond sports events, religious congregations, political rallies, or acts of tyranny
  • Examines the naturalisation of private property's logic, land liberalisation and deregulation, and housing atomisation
  • Text in English and Spanish
Full Description

On 29 September 1979, 250,000 filled the seats of Chile’s National Stadium in Santiago. The event that was meant to transform the attendants from mere dwellers into proprietors. Prior to it, a booklet circulated that featured a plan of the stadium showing the space of its stands subdivided into boroughs and shanty towns. The people summoned were mostly beneficiaries from a national self-help housing programme responding to a severe housing crisis by offering people a plot of land within the city. Stadium: A Building that Renders the Image of a City tells a double story of that 1979 event in Santiago de Chile: that of a building, with its dissimilar and even contradictory past uses, and that of a city, with its atomised housing underpinning an unequal development. Both parts are overlaid here, where the stadium’s floorplan, rather than delineating the stands, visualises another city marginalised from its centre and arresting different scales in a spatial and temporal panorama. Arranged in four chapters, the book features short essays as well as rich visual material.

Published to accompany the Pavilion of Chile, 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, 26 May-25 November 2018.

Text in English and Spanish

About the Author

Alejandra Celedón is an architect working as a researcher and lecturer at Pontifica Universidad Católica's School of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies in Santiago. Stephannie Fell is an architect and lecturer at at Pontifica Universidad Católica's School of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies in Santiago.

Specifications
Publisher
Park Books
ISBN
9783038601081
Published
18th Jun 2018
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World excluding Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, United States, Canada, and Japan
Size
240 mm x 170 mm
Pages
192 Pages
Illustrations
50 color, 40 b&w
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