Visualising Hospital Architectural Obsolescence
A Case Study Through Authorial Photography
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Architectural obsolescence, aesthetics of the extreme, aesthetics of exposure, artistic research, visual analysisAbstract
The demolition of the Hospital Universitario 12 de October in Madrid is examined as a visual event associated with the aesthetics of the extreme, understood as a form of perceptual intensification produced by the progressive dismantling of an infrastructure that remains in operation. The study explores how architectural obsolescence becomes an object of artistic contemplation when mediated through authorial photography. The methodology is grounded in the visual —formal and symbolic— analysis of five images arranged according to a gradation of structural exposure. The findings indicate that the gradual dismantling of the envelope and the disclosure of the internal structure redefine traditional criteria of the beautiful and recast demolition as a contemporary aesthetic experience.Downloads
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