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Culture
and politics / Monserrat Palmer
From the house to the mall / Mauricio Baros
Theory of Rumors / Arturo Torres
The medium and the message / Rodrigo Pérez de Arce
Spires / Alejandro Crispiani
Destroying buildings /
Rodrigo Tisi
What is it that makes space political?
Of all the activities of a human community, only two are considered
necessary for what Aristotle called bios politikos: action and speech,
thus completely excluding all that is merely necessary or useful. The
architect’s actions and discourse imply the conception of the
architectural project as a political act, taking into account the fact
that forms are ideologically neutral, and only acquire meaning according
to the way they are used.
Five articles introduce from different perspectives the problems pertaining
to architecture’s sphere of action from a political point of view.
Culture, the city, and the architectural work are the paradigms that
we present throughout this issue devoted to our everyday life in a given
society..
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Civic
Center project, Concepción / Smiljan Radic + Eduardo Castillo
+ Ricardo Serpell
We show here in detail the development of a project for Concepción’s
Civic quarter, resulting from a public architectural competition. This
project is considered to be of central importance in the context of
this city’s urban renewal, as it is proposed by the “Plan
Concepción”. This building, both by its dimensions and
by its architectural quality, should become one of the greatest architectural
works brought about by the Chilean state in this century.
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Covered
square in Dominican Republic / Sebastián Irarrázaval
The Dominican Republic’s weather makes it necessary to produce
shadow for many everyday activities. A great covered square would not
be surprising then, even though it contradicts our usual conception
of outdoors public spaces. This project is part of a set of proposals
produced by architectural studios all around the world, commissioned
by the local government in order to renew the face of Santo Domingo.
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Televisión
Nacional de Chile, Santiago / Gubbins Arquitectos + MSGSSS Arquitectos
At a time when the control over images implies the power to
shape social behavior, a building for the state’s TV station can
become the institutional site for a fourth power, conveying an image
as convincing as the ones it broadcasts. Or else it can be nothing but
what it actually is: a container located on a specific site, structured
according to the needs of a TV station.
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Aomori
architectural competition, Japan / Alejandro Morales
It seems paradoxical to commission nearly 900 proposals from
all around the globe in order to create a regionally identifiable architecture.
Orient, however, by means of a large number of architectural competitions,
assumes as a global problem the needs of a specific place. This award-winning
project is the result of such a renewed and foreign outlook on the housing
policies of a local government.
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Palacio
de La Moneda lighting competition, Santiago / Karina Stuardo + Javier
Aránguiz + Juan Carlos Cárdenas + Maximiliano Echeverría
In its fourth version, the Philips “Lighten up your ideas”
Contest proposed the lightning of the nation’s most important
institutional building, the Moneda Palace. The winning project presented
here is characterized by solving the complex problem of giving a new
image to the government’s house through a simple decision. A light
belt all around the building and the stresses on the vertical rhythm
generated by the pilasters give to the Moneda a renewed nocturnal image,
generating a new relation between citizens and the building.
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The
court of the itinerant judge: space for a political choreography
The Justice Court room is chosen as an example to cast light
on the relations between architecture and politics. This article’s
proposal, derived from a master’s thesis, avoids charging the
building with political and ideological readings, and rather chooses
to examine the spatial relations among bodies, mediated by objects,
following a political rite organized according to power relations.
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Formal
or informal?
According to the modus operandi of ancient Rome, Mussolini
transformed buildings and the city as the materialized body of the Fascist
ideology. This article, derived from a doctoral dissertation, examines
his relations with contemporary architecture, which he granted a place
traditionally occupied by Classical architecture.
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The
last monument / Wren Strabucchi
According to the modus operandi of ancient Rome, Mussolini
transformed buildings and the city as the materialized body of the
Fascist ideology. This article, derived from a doctoral dissertation,
examines his relations with contemporary architecture, which he granted
a place traditionally occupied by Classical architecture.
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Civic
Square: Plaza de La Constitución, Santiago / Andrea Masuero
The present aspect of the Plaza Constitución does not necessarily
reflect the forms and uses that this space has had since its foundation.
This place has once again become the most important site for political
manifestations after the return to democracy. The history of this site
and the sucessive projects that have shaped it are the subject of the
thesis presented herein.
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Mirror
Francisca Labbé + Felipe García-Huidobro
Santiago, Chile, 2002
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Exposition
montage: "Huellas en mi rostro"
Teodoro Fernández + Danilo Martic
Temuco, Chile, 2001 |
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B-B
House
Cruz & Browne Arquitectos Asoc.
Santiago, Chile, 2002 |
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Las
Quemas House
Marco Beovic
Puerto Montt, Chile, 2002 |
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Enrione
House
José Luis Ugarte
Machalí, Chile, 2001 |
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