The Museum of Architecture's little Store's views

1
The store's entrance at the first level,
books, magazines and pictures for sale.


2
Gasparini-Otero-Villanueva sub-entanglement.


3
The store's first level (left wall view)


4
Calendar-Catalogues sale, displaying each page.


5
The store's view at the second level and hallway entrance.


6
Detail of the emblem's hallway, framed picture and
coper electrical wall fixture for sale with their respective labels.


7
The store's first level (right wall view). The planetarium display.


8
The store's second level (Plan Caracas, La Vega, display)


9
The store's second level (Plan Caracas, Los Manolos, display)


10
The store's manager at work.


11
View of store's sales desk and its depleted -architecture-
library department.

Institutional Logos & Emblems, (hallway version), 2006. From the series Modern Entanglements

2006, 2008.
Installation view, (hallway) with vinyl lettering.
On the right wall, 'pre-revolution' institutional logos & emblems.
On the left wall, the only emblem imposed to represent
the diverse array of Venezuelan cultural institutions after
the unilateral decision of the cultural minister.



Detail, (right-wall) showing more than 20 of the 'pre-revolution'
institutional logos & emblems, by recognized Venezuelan
designers for: museums, foundations and other types
of governmental cultural institutes.


Detail, (left-wall) showing the red emblem called "The dog
and the frog", taken from the Panare (native American)
Venezuelan ethnic craftsmanship by the cultural minister to
substitute all pre-revolution institutional logos & emblems.
Next to it another old emblem that seems to be appealing to the
consumerist 'revolutionary' elites.

CORRUPTED FILES 2006 - 2008. From the series: PLAN CARACAS, 1974 - 1976

Plan Caracas, was the first documented governmental experience intended to consolidate the infrastructure and architectonic design of Venezuelan favelas that organically grew surrounding the modernistic capital city.

Only two projects were finished and documented by publishing fully illustrated booklets: La Vega and Los Manolos, which carried the original names that people gave to these spontaneous urban developments. All these coincided with the nationalization of the oil industry and an enormous influx of money product of the 1973 international oil crisis.

The government rhetoric portraying the oil as property of the people and the fact that only two projects of this nature were completed shows how the interruption of this initiative, of redistribution of wealth, may reveal the instrumentality of architecture and photography as a tool for demagogic propaganda. Therefore the manipulation and circulation of these images of poor people and its architecture becomes an issue. Furthermore when all politicians, (during the last fifty years and independently of their ideological stands), repeatedly use the subject as a populist strategy; it becomes an evident manipulation of the image, which ends up by canceling its effectiveness as certifier of the real.

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Álvaro Sotillo; b. Caracas 1946
Brochure design of Plan Caracas No.2, Los Manolos.
Published by Centro Simón Bolívar, Gobernación del
Distrito Federal, Caracas. 1974-1976
Photographs by Ricardo Sánchez and
Anne & Thierry Benedetti.


(m1)

2 Corrupted files from pages 4 and 5. (M1) 2006-2008
Series' Los Manolos, Plan Caracas No. 2, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 152 x 114 cm


(m2)

2 corrupted files from page 9, (M2) 2006-2008
Series' Los Manolos, Plan Caracas No. 2, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 152 x 114 cm


(m3)

3 corrupted files from page 10, (M3) 2006-2008
Series' Los Manolos, Plan Caracas No. 2, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 114 x 152 cm


(m4)

3 corrupted files from page 10 - [2], (M4) 2006-2008
Series' Los Manolos, Plan Caracas No. 2, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 114 x 152 cm


(m5)

2 corrupted files from page 11, (M5) 2006-2008
Series' Los Manolos, Plan Caracas No. 2, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 114 x 152 cm


(m6)

2 corrupted files from page 12, (M6) 2006-2008
Series' Los Manolos, Plan Caracas No. 2, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 152 x 114 cm


(m7)

2 corrupted files from page 13, (M7) 2006-2008
Series' Los Manolos, Plan Caracas No. 2, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 152 x 114 cm


(m8)

2 corrupted files from page 13, (M8) 2006-2008
Series' Los Manolos, Plan Caracas No. 2, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 114 x 152 cm


(m9)

2 corrupted files from pages 14 and 15, (M9) 2006-2008
Series' Los Manolos, Plan Caracas No. 2, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 152 x 114 cm


(m10)

3 corrupted files from page 16, (M10) 2006-2008
Series' Los Manolos, Plan Caracas No. 2, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 152 x 114 cm


(m11)

2 corrupted files from page 17, (M11) 2006-2008
Series' Los Manolos, Plan Caracas No. 2, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 152 x 114 cm


(m12)

2 corrupted files from page 18, (M12) 2006-2008
Series' Los Manolos, Plan Caracas No. 2, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 152 x 114 cm


(m13)

Corrupted file from page 19, (M13) 2006-2008
Series' Los Manolos, Plan Caracas No. 2, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 152 x 114 cm


(m14)

Corrupted file from page 20, (M14) 2006-2008
Series' Los Manolos, Plan Caracas No. 2, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 152 x 114 cm


(m15)

Corrupted file from page 11, (M15) 2006-2008
Series' Los Manolos, Plan Caracas No. 2, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 114 x 114 cm


(m16)

Corrupted file from page 21, (M16) 2006-2008
Series' Los Manolos, Plan Caracas No. 2, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 114 x 114 cm


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Álvaro Sotillo; b. Caracas 1946.
Brochure design of Plan Caracas No.1, La Vega.
Published by Centro Simón Bolívar, Gobernación del
Distrito Federal, Caracas. 1974-1976.
Photographs by Ricardo Sánchez and
Anne & Thierry Benedetti.


(v1)

Corrupted file from page 14, (V1) 2006-2008
Series' La Vega, Plan Caracas No. 1, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 114 x 114 cm


(v2)

3 corrupted files from pages 1, 2, 3 and 24, (V2) 2006-2008
Series' La Vega, Plan Caracas No. 1, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 152 x 114 cm

(v3)

2 corrupted files from page 18, (V3) 2006-2008
Series' La Vega, Plan Caracas No. 1, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 152 x 114 cm

(v4)

2 corrupted files from page 20 and 21, (V4) 2006-2008
Series' La Vega, Plan Caracas No. 1, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 152 x 114 cm

(v5)

2 corrupted files from page 5, (V5) 2006-2008
Series' La Vega, Plan Caracas No. 1, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 152 x 114 cm

(v6)

2 corrupted files from page 11 (V6) 2006-2008
Series' La Vega, Plan Caracas No. 1, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 152 x 114 cm

(v7)

2 corrupted files from page 13, (V7) 2006-2008
Series' La Vega, Plan Caracas No. 1, 1974-1976
Digital C-Print, from faulty Scanner. 152 x 114 cm

From the series Modern Entanglements, Museum of Beaux Arts, Caracas. 1938-1958-1998-2008

1938-1958, Progresses. 1998
View of the Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas (circa 1938).
Unknown photographer.
Digital reproduction of vintage photograph and photocollage
on photographic paper.
Photocollage (1998) of rocket from Miranda Tower (1958)
Unrealized project for the exhibition Utópolis (GAN, 2001).
Two versions B/W and Sepia, 2008
From the series Modern Entanglements, MBA 1938-1958-1998.



Installation view,
1971, 2001. Diptych with book opened in pg. 130
Open book (pg.130) by Iris Peruga; b. Barcelona 1935
In collaboration with José María Salvador
Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas
Cincuentenario. Una Historia. 1988
Museo de Bellas Artes


1971, 2001. (Composite detail)
Diptych of digital errors from vintage photograph
from the MBA archive. Unknown photographer.
The Museum's directors presents the extension
project model to the president and its cabinet.
Museum of Beaux Arts, Caracas.

From the series Nostalgic Apparatus, Caracas la sucursal del cielo, 1998

North silhouette fragment.
Humboldt Planetarium, Caracas. Constructed circa 1960.


North-East silhouette fragment.
Humboldt Planetarium, Caracas. Constructed circa 1960.


East silhouette fragment.
Humboldt Planetarium, Caracas. Constructed circa 1960.


South-East silhouette fragment.
Humboldt Planetarium, Caracas. Constructed circa 1960.


South silhouette fragment.
Humboldt Planetarium, Caracas. Constructed circa 1960.
South-West silhouette fragment.
Humboldt Planetarium, Caracas. Constructed circa 1960.
West silhouette fragment.Humboldt Planetarium, Caracas. Constructed circa 1960.


North-West silhouette fragment.Humboldt Planetarium, Caracas. Constructed circa 1960.