Yago Conde’s death at the age of 37 in 1994, shortly after completing his doctoral thesis, interrupted his presence within architectural thought. This disappearance—a particular form of loss of density—was also a loss marked by the silence that followed.

In his thesis, entitled Architecture of Indeterminacy, Yago Conde proposes an understanding of architecture not as a practice oriented towards defined forms and static boundaries, but as a field of states of suspension and indeterminacy. From this position, he questioned architecture’s fixed boundaries and opened the project up to multiple, non-predetermined relations, conceiving it as a form of writing on the surface rather than as a closed solution, in connection with practices in which the work depends on context and interpretation. Along similar lines, the ontological indeterminacy of quantum physics describes a reality in which matter emerges in relation to context.

Co-curated with Blanca Pujals, this project presents a series of editions that take these ideas as their point of departure, activating them as tools with which to rethink architecture, publishing, and artistic and knowledge production through indeterminacy and relation.

Acknowledgements: Bea Goller, Moisés Puente and the COAC Historical Archive.