The ephemeral life in St. Louis of Javier Carvajal’s Spanish Pavilion for the 1964–65 New York World’s Fair
- Delgado Orusco, Eduardo
- Jerez Abajo, Enrique
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[EN] This article uses the Spanish Pavilion by Javier Carvajal at the 1964–65 New York World’s Fair as a case study to examine the physical survival of some pavilions. Strictly speaking, a pavilion is a tent and a satellite. National exhibition pavilions are ephemeral satellites of their country, but they cannot be defined as tents if they cannot easily be dismantled, transferred, and reconstructed. The success of their second life depends on several essential aspects such us their construction technology or size, but also on other circumstances, such as how they manage to adapt to conditions different from the original ones, and their subsequent economic viability. The conflict between these factors has often led to failure. After the reco...
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