The Viceroy Image Center inaugurates "The city in dispute"

The Viceroy Image Center opens on March 3 at 7 p.m. the exhibition The city in dispute. Collective experiments around social housing in southern Europe (1949-1976). Curated by María García Ruiz and Moisés Puente, The city in dispute presents a series of unique experiences around social housing that were carried out in various moments of crisis and that in their own way reinvented the paradigms of modernity and the relationship between architecture and its inhabitants.

Spatial practices in which communities played a fundamental role in defining their place in the city and in which architects took on the challenge of reinventing worlds from below. Starting from the neorealist reconstruction of post-war Italy, passing through the avant-garde proposals of the Poblados Dirigidos in Spain, and up to the housing experiments that gave rise to the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, this exhibition questions the ways in which they intersect architecture and social conflict, putting into play the poetic rigor of the design, the staging of new problems regarding minimal housing, and the embodied desire of bodies located until that moment on the margins of history.

The exhibition can be visited until June 4, 2023.