Concrete Errors, or The Magic of Shells
Error has played a particularly important role in the development of the structural and architectural technology of concrete, a material whose aesthetic and mediatic dimensions have allowed for the exploration of error in its most suggestive meaning, that of deception through visual trickery, simi...
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oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article-648292021-04-14T21:26:52Z Concrete Errors, or The Magic of Shells Errores concretos, o la magia de los cascarones González Pendás, María Concrete Labor Rights Risk Cubiertas Ala IMSS concreto derechos laborales riesgo Cubiertas Ala IMSS Error has played a particularly important role in the development of the structural and architectural technology of concrete, a material whose aesthetic and mediatic dimensions have allowed for the exploration of error in its most suggestive meaning, that of deception through visual trickery, similar to magic. This article reveals the fundamental role of error in the magic behind one of the most renowned and successful examples of modernist architecture: the concrete shells built in the mid-20th Century by Felix Candela and his construction company Cubiertas Ala. Starting with two of the company’s most resounding errors – the partial collapse of one of its concrete shells during the construction process and the company’s financial collapse – this article offers a new critical history of these concrete shells, revealing how crucial an embodied form of error was to their production process. El error ha jugado un papel particularmente importante en el desarrollo de las tecnologías estructurales y constructivas del concreto, material cuya dimensión estética y mediática también ha permitido explotar el fallo desde su significado etimológico más sugerente, es decir, desde el del engaño o engatusamiento, a través de artimañas de lo visual propias de los mejores trucos de magia. Este artículo revela lo fundamental del error en la magia que sustentó a una de las arquitecturas de concreto más reconocidas y exitosas de la modernidad: los cascarones que Félix Candela realizó con su compañía constructora Cubiertas Ala a mediados del siglo xx. A partir de los dos errores más estrepitosos que sufrió Cubiertas Ala en sus dos décadas de vida: el colapso parcial de uno de los cascarones en construcción y el colapso financiero de la empresa, este artículo ofrece una nueva crítica histórica —y no matemática— de los cascarones, revelando lo fundamental del error cotidiano y encarnado en sus procesos de producción. Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2018-05-25 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Investigación application/pdf application/xml https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/64829 10.22201/fa.14058901p.2017.37.64829 Bitacora Arquitectura; No. 37 (2017): Error; 32-43 Bitácora Arquitectura; Núm. 37 (2017): Error; 32-43 2594-0856 1405-8901 10.22201/fa.14058901p.2017.37 spa https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/64829/56979 https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/64829/59479 Derechos de autor 2018 Bitácora arquitectura |
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Error has played a particularly important role in the development of the structural and architectural technology of concrete, a material whose aesthetic and mediatic dimensions have allowed for the exploration of error in its most suggestive meaning, that of deception through visual trickery, similar to magic. This article reveals the fundamental role of error in the magic behind one of the most renowned and successful examples of modernist architecture: the concrete shells built in the mid-20th Century by Felix Candela and his construction company Cubiertas Ala. Starting with two of the company’s most resounding errors – the partial collapse of one of its concrete shells during the construction process and the company’s financial collapse – this article offers a new critical history of these concrete shells, revealing how crucial an embodied form of error was to their production process. |
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