Architecture and Failure
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C. de Montalegre, 5 (08001)
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Writer Charlotte Van den Broek talks about creation and despair based on the book Saltos mortales (Acantilado, 2024).
Where is the line between a creator and his work? At what point does a failure become more important than life itself, or so overwhelming that one's whole life can be considered a failure?
Charlotte van den Broek found in her hometown Turnhout a trace that led her through thirteen architectural projects with a common denominator: all of them resulted in personal and professional tragedy for their architects. Over the course of three years, the author visited all these "epicenters of failure" - both historic and recent works, built both in Europe and the United States - to rehabilitate the ruined architects, to restore their lost faces, to do something about the sterility of their despair and the final nature of their last act, suicide.
Presenters: Lluís Ortega
Participants: Charlotte Van den Broeck, Blanca Pujals, Amadeu Santacana i Juncosa
- Type of activity
- Debates and conferences
- Organizing entity
- Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona CCCB
- Coorganitzadors
- Editorial Acantilado
- District
- Ciutat Vella
- Event type
- In-person
- Type of ticket
- Free entrance with prior registration