"Texts, Toni Casares, Ricardo Flores, Manuel Guerrero, Juan José Lahuerta, Eva Prats, Ellis Woodman, The interviews with Toni Casares, Soraya Smithson, Miralda, Sergi Belbel and Curro Claret, are extracts from the film 'Escala 1:5'."--Page 6
"Translation .: Jonny Pugh, Gregory Dechant."--Page 6
"... photographers Adrià Goula and Judith Casas ..."--Page 6

8 How Should the New Sala Beckett be? An important decision Toni Casares --
14 The Competition Project Dec 2010-Jan 2011 --
34 The Pau I Justicia Workers Cooperative 1924 --
46 State As-Found Jan 2011 --
58 The New Sala Beckett by Flores & Prats Juan José Lahuerta --
64 Inventory Feb-July 2011 Woodwork, Flooring, Ceiling Roses --
82 First occupancy July 2013-July 2014 Inventory of Furnishing, Colors, Lettering, Summer
Workshop 2013, Registry of Walls --
102 From 8 Million to 2.5 Million Jan-July 2014 --
116 Construction Sept 2014-June 2016 Marks on the Floor, Demolitions, Salvaging the Flooring,
Theaters, Classrooms, New Flooring, Lobby, Skylight, Woodwork, Furnishings, Railings,
Façade, Signing, Painting --
190 The Discipline of the Exiting, after the Sala Beckett Ricardo Flores, Eva Prats --
202 Film 44 Doors and 35 Windows for the new Sala Beckett Feb 2016-May 2017 --
208 Paper Theater Jan 2017-April 2018 Soraya Smithson --
252 Pop-Up Oct 2016 --
254 Film An animated Pop-Up Sept 2017 --
256 Ghosts. The Café of memory Oct 2016 Sergi Belbel --
266 Film Scale 1:5 Dec 2017 Carlota Coloma, Adrià Lahuerta / 15-L. Films --
268 Beckett at the Cooperative Manuel Guerrero Brullet --
278 Venice Architecture Biennale May-Nov 2018 --
290 Constructed realities Ellis Woodman --
303 Containers --

"In the new Sala Beckett, the ruins found by Flores & Prats are assigned civic and moral values that, through the redemption of usage value, have been transformed into 'truth.' Let's remember one very important aspect here: the building of the old workers' cooperative 'Pau i Justícia that has become the new Sala Beckett was not classified as protected heritage. The architects could have demolished it to create an empty lot on which to build a totally new theater. Neither the architects nor the theater management were obliged to conserve anything, not even the memory of the place. Yet they have done just that, making an important design decision in ideological terms: this extraordinary project begins with that decision." "The workers' cooperative 'Pau i Justícia' in Poblenou, very active for much of the twentieth century, closed its doors in the late 1990s and left the building abandoned and in an advanced state of ruin. The Sala Beckett, one of the driving forces of the Catalan theater since its foundation in the late 1980s as the headquarters of 'El Teatro Fronterizo' by José Sanchis Sinisterra, and directed by Toni Casares since 1997, was left without its home in the Gràcia neighborhood in the mid-2000s. Following a public competition in 2011, the Sala Beckett team and Flores & Prats undertook a process of rehabilitation of this former workers' cooperative to convert it into the new Sala Beckett / Internacional Drama Center. The building, abandoned for more than twenty years, was still very present in the memory of the neighbors living around it, so the project became the recovery of a social heritage as well a physical heritage. The final result contains the era of the cooperative, the era of abandonment, and the era of the new Sala Beckett. The new Sala Beckett was awarded the City of Barcelona Prize of Architecture and Urbanism 2016."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper

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