work at the A Smith Gallery
Presenting my photographic work at the A Smith Gallery “Alphabet” group exhibition. Thanks Amanda Smith and Kevin James Tully for organising such a great show!
Presenting my photographic work at the A Smith Gallery “Alphabet” group exhibition. Thanks Amanda Smith and Kevin James Tully for organising such a great show!
Kangbashi is probably not the rebirth of the phoenix as the city defines itself in the propaganda brochures that dwell in its hotel rooms, but it’s not either the ghost city by which al-Jazeera and other foreign media try to undermine the credibility of the new global super-power China has become.
The defunct Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia achieved a certain degree of material well-being, which was reflected in a strong program for social housing or the construction of great public buildings to accommodate the people. Architecture played an important cultural role and Yugoslavian architects, understanding the political climate of their time, rejected Socialist Realism in favor of an International Style with its own characteristics.
The story of the Francisco Hernando neighborhood in Seseña, a town 35km south of Madrid, as well as many other urban developments in Spain at the beginning of the 21st century is well known. The liberalization of land use allowing urban development in almost any corner of the Spanish territory, tax cuttings that forced municipalities to finance themselves through building permits, together with low bank interest rates generated what has been considered to be the biggest real estate bubble in Europe.