The AIA UK Chapter proudly presents as part of its film series, Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray’s Unfinished Spaces

Wednesday, 30 October 2013 1900hrs BFI Screening Room 21 Stephen Street, London W1T 1LN

The movie will be preceded by a short introduction.

Free Admission 1.5 CES Credits

Seating is limited. RSVP required. Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/8764451711 UNFINISHED SPACES A film by Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray Wednesday, 30 October 1900hrs BFI Screening Room 21 Stephen Street, London W1T 1LN

Unfinished Spaces is a 2011 documentary film about the revolutionary design of the National Art Schools (Cuba). The film tells the dramatic story of the art schools from their founding by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, to their eventual abandonment and fall into ruin and recent efforts to restore them. The three visionary architects Ricardo Porro, Roberto Gottardi, and Vittorio Garatti are interviewed on camera. They talk about the intense atmosphere of revolutionary Cuba and how they strove to create an entirely new language of architecture, one without precedent. They also speak about why their design fell into disfavor and how the complex was mostly abandoned, uncompleted. As the film shows, parts of the schools are in ruins while other parts are used today by young dancers and artists. These schools are on the watch list of the World Monuments Fund, and efforts to restore the abandoned buildings are being explored.

Free Admission 1.5 CES Credits Seating is limited. RSVP required. Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/8764451711