Remaking Contested Architectural Heritage, Rethinking Public Space

Authors

  • Jorge Otero-Pailos Columbia University
  • Angélica Fernández-Morales Universidad de Zaragoza https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5090-2331
  • Sergio Sebastian Franco Universidad de Zaragoza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2021165567

Keywords:

Experimental preservation, Public space, Monuments, Contested heritage

Abstract

The management of contested heritage, understood as that associated with ethically questionable historical episodes, or episodes subject to controversy in today's society, should include that of buildings and public spaces. Those can be heritage sites but also spaces that currently house those monuments, or public spaces in which social movements derived from historical episodes take place. This issue of Zarch presents essays that examine new ways of remaking said contested heritage, and approach this question through the conceptual framework of experimental preservation, and that conceive of heritage as a creative and dynamic third realm of real and imaginary, physical and emotional, technological and social interactions between objects and subjects involved in processes of future-making.

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Author Biographies

Jorge Otero-Pailos, Columbia University

New York-based artist, architect and preservationist best known for making monumental casts of historically charged buildings. Otero-Pailos draws from his formal training in architecture and preservation to create artworks that address themes of memory, history and transition, inviting  the viewer to consider monuments as powerful agents for cultural connection, questioning and understanding. He has been exhibited widely, and his works are in the collections of, among others, the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; SFMoMA, San Francisco; The Museum of London; The Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland; The Whitworth, Manchester; The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Kelvingrove/The People's Palace, Glasgow; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; Museion: Contemporary Art Museum of Bolzano, Italy.  He is Director and Professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture in New York. He is also the founder and editor of the journal Future Anterior. Otero-Pailos is the recipient of the 2021-22 American Academy in Rome Residency in the visual arts.

Angélica Fernández-Morales, Universidad de Zaragoza

Architect and PhD from the Barcelona Tech (UPC). Associate professor in the area of Architectural Graphics at the University of Zaragoza. Member of the GIA Research Group and of the Institute of Heritage and Humanities of the University of Zaragoza. Her research includes the study of the relationships between art and architecture, as well as digital techniques for the virtual reconstruction of heritage.

Sergio Sebastian Franco, Universidad de Zaragoza

Architect and PhD from the ETSAM. Senior Lecturer in the area of Architectural Projects at the University of Zaragoza. Member of the PuPc Research Group and of the Institute of Heritage and Humanities. His architecture, restoration, and lighting art works received several awrads as Domus Restauro e Conservazione, Hispania Nostra, RTF, Mada MOS Build,  Arquitectura con EÑE, Construlita, LIT, Metal Architecture, and selected in events as Biennale di Architettura di Venezia,  Triennale di Milano, Bienal de Arquitectura Española, or Bienal Europea de Paisaje.

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Published

2021-09-13

How to Cite

Otero-Pailos, J., Fernández-Morales, A., & Sebastian Franco, S. (2021). Remaking Contested Architectural Heritage, Rethinking Public Space. ZARCH. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, (16), 4–7. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2021165567

Issue

No. 16 (2021): Remaking Contested Architectural Heritage, Rethinking Public Space

Section

Editorial