Guided Visit to the Olympic Archery Field with Carolina B. García-Estévez (ETSAB | UPC)
Camp Olímpic de Tir amb Arc | © David Mesa, maig 2023
The Limits of the Contemporary: the Ruins of Archery
In 2008, when the first pavilion of the Olympic facilities was dismantled for the construction of a new metro line, the limits of the contemporary were manifested in another work by Miralles/Pinós: with its walls piled on top of each other, just like the basalt columns of Gaudí’s Colonia Güell Crypt, today’s spectator stands in the aftershock of a time that is always peripheral to creation.
Biography
Carolina B. García-Estévez has a PhD in Architecture, is a Serra Húnter professor of History of Art and Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) and the Assistant Director of Publications and Archive ETSAB — Gaudí Chair. She was a visiting professor at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. She has participated in top international forums specialising in the history of architecture, such as the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, the Casa da Arquitectura in Oporto, the Society of Architectural Historians and the Museo Nacional del Prado.
She was an exhibition researcher for Musée d’Orsay (2022), Museu Picasso (2020) and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2008). She is the author and editor of numerous monographs focusing on modern Spanish architecture and the relationships between architecture, art and literature for defining a new origin of the European avant-garde, with special dedication to the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Of note among her work are Rafael Moneo. Una manera de enseñar arquitectura. Lecciones desde Barcelona, 1971-1976; Enric Miralles, Archigraphias, 1983-2000; and the recent Las ciudades de Rilke.
Website: Carolina B. García-Estévez
Social media: Twitter @carolina_bge; Instagram @carolina_bge
An activity linked to the City of Sand exhibition by David Bestué