Car body
The contemporary city has been shaped, or distorted, by the use of the automobile. To give an example, parked or moving vehicles occupy between 40% and 50% of available public space. Architectural photography, however, omits and renders their presence invisible, reflecting how inappropriate they are in the representation of the ideal city.
The pandemic and lockdown gave us the opportunity to glimpse a city with fewer vehicles, more walkable, quieter, and friendlier. In Madrid, for example, during those days, if you walked between the Murillo gate of the Prado Museum and the gates of the Botanical Garden, you could clearly hear the sound of the fountains there.
In this book, you will find a city with cars and cars with cities, transfigured architecture, and vehicles as the imaginary support of an alternative city.