Cámara y modelo

For the first time ever, this exhibition pays double tribute to two important systems of architectural representation: the model and the photograph. Rescuing more than one hundred original photos of models of major projects - well-known and less known, built and unbuilt - of 20th century Spanish modernity is a visual, critical and historical discourse of great magnitude, a sort of a parallel visual narrative of the modern evolution of our architecture. Beyond the analysis of its technical or compositional structure, the exhibition - which features photos by Català-Roca, Kindel, Pando, Lladó, Maspons-Ubiña, Gómez and Massats, as well as by architects such as Aizpurúa, de la Sota and Higueras, along with a number of original models portrayed in photographs - underscores the documentary value of the image (most of these models no longer physically exist) as the bearer of an independent and essential legacy of architectural design. The goal is not to review the history of modern architecture and its main players, but rather to explore the identity and scope of its depiction, in this case on two accounts.