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Mapping The Downfall — The Pop-Up City

Fascinating ruins are surrounding us! All over our cities and outside, symbolic decadent buildings are taken as case studies to talk about an era. The picture of Villa Savoye taken before its renovation marks the end of the modern movement long before its international recognition, due to the misunderstandings and the lack of interest towards the “machines for living” it was creating. Decline of iconic buildings are phases we should accept towards a deep renovation and change of paradigms in style and that is the point of mapping ruins of buildings recognized as contemporary, as a group of Spanish architects is ambitiously doing since almost a year.