Voci dall’isolamento : il libro Bunkering di Jeannette Plaut, Marcelo Sarovic, Marés Sandor, Santiago 2021

The book Bunkering by Jeannette Plaut, Marcelo Sarovic, Marés Sandor (Constructo 2021) provides a particular interpretation of the fortified military shelter, reflecting on the condition of isolation, necessary to respond to the recent health emergency caused by the COVID 19 pandemic. The book is a collection of thoughts, notes, poems and images, which enables us to perceive the feelings experienced during the tragic condition of isolation or medical confinement by prominent architects, photographers and artists from all over the world. In this sense Bunkering is a reflection of several voices on the theme of isolation and in particular on how the recent sanitary confinement has had effects in architecture on all different scales, in homes, cities and territories: this makes the book a window to the world. This small and fine edition is also of particular relevance in relation to the editors' point of view, the Chilean one, marked by a past with another particular condition of isolation, the dictatorship that lasted seventeen years, until 1990.