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Culture, Film, Literature and Arts of the newspaper Clarin, "Revista Ñ" has published an interesting article by an anthropologist and director of studies at the School of Social Sciences in Paris, Marc Augé (atuor the famous "Non-Places. Areas of anonymity")
"Urgent Appeal.
Perhaps the precedent of Le Corbusier incites caution: the master, with its ideal of self-sufficient housing, its rejection of historical city and its taste for the "tabula rasa" ravaged, and their texts, like other dreams, are now part of the "grand narratives" utopian whose death was celebrated by Lyotard. But is this perhaps a reason to listen only the sirens of liberalism whose great story also seems to be flagging? One can imagine that she refuses to be sentenced to "present" projects that are more than designers Second-hand, they have something to say and to dare to say, their takeover of the word, that the most famous not content with doing the exegesis of his works speak for "gestures", but to make proposals on housing in the city on how to deal with the urgency not to mention the long term, in short, that so many intellectual conversations on these topics are more language experiencia.Cuanto admire more, more we want to get rid of the culture of "project", that way of thinking "in light of the circumstances" imposed by the ideology of consumption to remain or return to be visionaries in the world. "
Cristina lyrics Sardoy.
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---- By: Marc Augé
---- By: Marc Augé
Architects, suggests the author of Non-places were fascinated with the possibility of making its mark privileged areas of the planet, perhaps neglecting social problems posed by urbanization in the world.
big names are almost as well known architects in the world as the big names players. The architecture is currently enjoying a very particular status. Does it arise threatening to cut a few meters Nouvel tower to be built in Manhattan? The press is lifted. A great wine from Bordeaux wants to increase the prestige of their production? Trust the builder of the cathedral of Evry the task of designing their new winery. A new museum opened in Bilbao or Chicago? Crowds rush to find out, less attracted by what is inside that building more visible in sí.Los architects are celebrated worldwide and medium-sized cities are trying to get any of them, at least one implant works on its territory to allow access planetary dignity and tourism. It may be asked about the reasons and consequences of this enthusiasm.
big names are almost as well known architects in the world as the big names players. The architecture is currently enjoying a very particular status. Does it arise threatening to cut a few meters Nouvel tower to be built in Manhattan? The press is lifted. A great wine from Bordeaux wants to increase the prestige of their production? Trust the builder of the cathedral of Evry the task of designing their new winery. A new museum opened in Bilbao or Chicago? Crowds rush to find out, less attracted by what is inside that building more visible in sí.Los architects are celebrated worldwide and medium-sized cities are trying to get any of them, at least one implant works on its territory to allow access planetary dignity and tourism. It may be asked about the reasons and consequences of this enthusiasm.
Down town
First, we noted that great architecture is always confirmed and expressed power relations in society. Today, the grand architecture of the towns down U.S. and European business districts symbolizes the power companies, the most direct way imaginable, projecting into the sky day, its towers draped in reverb of curtain walls or into the night sky, the luminous transparency of their offices whenever iluminadas.Las large companies that are installed in newer towers do in the first place for his image, and fascinating magic word that sums up the eyes of many all you can hear the world in which we live. They do well to provide good working conditions for their employees. But turn those conditions often have to do with the image. Undivided spaces (the open spaces) are less spaces of freedom from which views reaching to the horizon through huge windows, that space where everyone is a prisoner of people's eyes, while at the same time the business environment is severely hierarchical. Evidenced by the fact that those responsible have offices major compartmentalized.
museum-piece
As for museums, conceived as works of art, tend to relegate to the background objects, collections and exhibitions are there instead. Do tourists really care about what they see inside the museum in Bilbao? Today, the new museum is not only the interior objects designed to show art or history, but is the "centerpiece" of the exposición.Detrás the debate between anthropologists and art enthusiasts to order the Musée du Quai Branly was another debate, implied, regarding the role of architecture. The way that respects the architect of the museum objects can be, above all, a way of interpreting them. Immerse African objects in a dim light, for example, points less to enhance their aesthetic dimension to suggest to them something as vague as inefable.Se has spoken to as a "project culture" about the architects who must deal with projects funded by the state, local or private developers. When you view the projects of the competing teams, one quickly notes that, beyond the technical arguments that respond accurately to the specifications, develop concepts with ease necessarily a bit excessive on the significance of the building seeking construir.Es fatal: imagine that the novelists or essayists were asked to make themselves critics of his book to get permission to write: what treasures of eloquence deployed! The architects are in this situation and therefore not surprising that the metaphor dangerously besiege their projects. Disputes over the adaptation to the totally artificial at a time when all local context and aims to be global architect firm where symbolizes the change of scale. Local or global context is definitely not an excuse to metaphor, a metaphor without further reference to the architecture itself. Fuck the context! Rem said Koolhas.De fact, at the precise moment when the world becomes an immense city, the quasi-divine power of the architect is a sign of the times. Responds to "order", no doubt, but that obedience is both its strength and its misfortune. By expanding in response whose purpose is to market their rhetoric is often akin to a kidnapping of the ideology of the employers, but that is why it expresses the story in motion, it is even its most spectacular and sometimes more sumptuous. Wondering where the story goes up is obviously another matter.
social gap
The issue of housing and habitat alone sums up the troubles and problems of the time. We've seen in Europe and especially France, the category of the SDF (homeless), which exceeds that of the unemployed, the "no work", it is precisely between the "homeless" people who have work but have insufficient income to housing. As for those who have a home and a job, must adapt to a form of urban growth that often condemns them to spend hours commuting in a city that seems to have abandoned the sense of urbanismo.Apenas occurs somewhere catastrophe natural cells are implemented to provide shelter crisis interim victims. Most illegal aliens in Europe, and many of the foreign rule, live in appalling conditions, in France there have been accidents in hotels or buildings that did not meet the minimum safety conditions. Just there is a conflict on the planet, television shows houses in ruins, mass exodus and refugee camps. Well see, in short, in all major cities in the world the division between the richest of the rich and the poorest of the poor can be read in terms of geography and architecture. The shanty towns that we thought eliminated in 1960 are resurfacing. The metaphor of the forest appears today without actually move nadie.Por other hand, everywhere manifests a rage for building, especially in emerging countries: in China they keep the land out of giant buildings, but architecture has trouble sustaining frenetic pace of urbanization and demography. I think of the wonderful and frightening images of excellent film La stella che non c'è by Gianni Amelio. It is also concerned about the compatibility of architectural extravagance and formally expressed the desire at this time, including architectural projects, to save energy. Buildings called "smart" and are fully air conditioned energía.Podemos eaters, thus have the strange feeling that the architecture is the human profession most concerned by the world's problems, but they outgrow it, which always runs after them without ever being able to dominate, that the "great architects" are more fascinated by the opportunities they have presented their mark on the privileged places in the world (who could blame them that ambition?) to deal with technical and social problems posed by urbanization in the world.
Urgent call
Perhaps the precedent of Le Corbusier incite prudence the master, with his ideal of self-sufficient dwelling, his rejection of the historical city and his love of "tabula rasa" ravaged, and their texts, like other dreams, are now part of the "grand narratives" utopian whose disappearance was celebrated by Lyotard. But is this perhaps a reason to listen to the sirens of liberalism only big story which also seems to be flagging? One can imagine that she refuses to be sentenced to "present" projects that are more than second-hand designer; they have something to say and to dare to say, their takeover of the word, that the most famous not content with doing the exegesis of his works and express for "gestures", but to make proposals on housing in the city on how to deal with the urgency not to mention the long term, in short, that so many intellectual conversations on these topics are more language experiencia.Cuanto most admire, the more we want to get rid of the culture of "project", that way of thinking "in light of the circumstances" imposed by the ideology of consumption to remain or return to be visionaries in the world.
Sardoy Cristina lyrics.
