Three projects by Ricardo Bofill and three stories by James Graham Ballard form The Terminal Beach, the final instalment of a trilogy that reflects on temporality through utopian architecture and the potential of its speculative imagination.

In The Third Twist, the artist uses the format of the road movie to document the current state of a nomadic settlement built in 1979 by Bofill in the Algerian Sahara, under the commission of the then president Houari Boumédienne. The construction falls within the framework of the architect’s utopian period, when his studio (RBTA) was an amalgam of architects, poets, painters and others. What was meant to be a complex built according to modern criteria ultimately remained an unfinished project, revealing the tension between the dream of the time and the reality of modern colonial legacies.