on site 9: surface

guest editors: Tonkao Panin and Juan Manuel Heredia

Our impression of the city is often shaped by its constructed face, the manifold, inviting aspects of frontal façades. Yet, along with the smart and healthy surfaces, we also notice the extra-ordinary images of the seemingly accidental, sick, dumb, morose, and uninviting surfaces, often tucked behind, beside, beneath or beyond the immaculate façades.

It is the relationship between the ensembles of architectural surfaces that lend materiality to the city’s boundaries