The editorial Cabeza de Chorlito is behind the publication of the book of photography Architecture and Resistance, a research around a type of architecture that we often put aside, we forget about it. Nicolas Combarro conducts a study through photography of a set of buildings divided into several categories: Architecture of resistance, Self-construction, Ephemeral, Contemporary, Vernacular and Politic. Unique buildings, with their own form and with local materials, but also with a repeating pattern, that transcends borders.
Architecture can be defined as any form of construction or alteration of the landscape carried out by man. Our architectural heritage is an essential part of our identity. ´Resistance architecture´ is a term that refers to a form of spontaneous construction where the structural logic is intertwined with cultural heritage. It is a free, unrestricted architecture that contains in and of itself a form of resistance to economic, social or political constraints. It also refers to traditional or vernacular buildings that remain standing despite have been neglected or even reviled.
Nicolás Combarro
