This review examines Línea P. Los bunkers del Pirineo, an exhibition by architect and photographer Iñaki Bergera devoted to the abandoned bunkers of the Pyrenean defensive line built by the Franco regime after the Spanish Civil War. Focusing on Sector 23 in the Tena Valley, where Bergera photographed 185 defensive structures and produced an archive of more than 400 images, the text highlights the project’s intersection between architecture, landscape, memory, and visual perception. The bunkers, originally designed to disappear through camouflage and topographical integration, re-emerge in Bergera’s work as silent remnants of an unrealized military strategy. Through a restrained, typological, and almost archaeological photographic method, the exhibition transforms these concrete structures into objects of historical reflection and aesthetic inquiry. The review emphasizes how Bergera’s images reveal not only the material presence of these modern ruins but also their paradoxical condition: architectures built for a war that never occurred, now absorbed by the landscape and reframed as devices for looking rather than defending

Arquitecturas para mirar: la Línea P en la mirada de Iñaki Bergera “Línea P. Los bunkers del Pirineo. Iñaki Bergera” / Ruiz, I.. - In: AACA DIGITAL. - ISSN 1988-5180. - ELETTRONICO. - (2026).

Arquitecturas para mirar: la Línea P en la mirada de Iñaki Bergera “Línea P. Los bunkers del Pirineo. Iñaki Bergera”

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This review examines Línea P. Los bunkers del Pirineo, an exhibition by architect and photographer Iñaki Bergera devoted to the abandoned bunkers of the Pyrenean defensive line built by the Franco regime after the Spanish Civil War. Focusing on Sector 23 in the Tena Valley, where Bergera photographed 185 defensive structures and produced an archive of more than 400 images, the text highlights the project’s intersection between architecture, landscape, memory, and visual perception. The bunkers, originally designed to disappear through camouflage and topographical integration, re-emerge in Bergera’s work as silent remnants of an unrealized military strategy. Through a restrained, typological, and almost archaeological photographic method, the exhibition transforms these concrete structures into objects of historical reflection and aesthetic inquiry. The review emphasizes how Bergera’s images reveal not only the material presence of these modern ruins but also their paradoxical condition: architectures built for a war that never occurred, now absorbed by the landscape and reframed as devices for looking rather than defending
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