“La Ciudad Ideal, fruto del pensamiento, no es otra cosa que el enunciado de un discurso que construye el enunciado de una ciudad real, proyectándola sobre la pantalla de la idealización. Esta aporía esconde una rica ambigüedad.” Italo Calvino (Delfante, 2006:11) La ciudad explica la historia y la evolución de la humanidad. Desde los primeros asentamientos urbanos hace unos 6000 […]
In recent decades the omnipresence of technology has accelerated our history as never before. Technological determinism tries to explain how technology by itself is capable of influencing and transforming in a positive way the socioeconomic context in which it develops. According to its followers, technology has become the central axis of the historical changes that determine development and social progress; […]
New old men it happens, new old theories. Last November 8, 2016 Donald Trump gains the presidential choices of the United States of America against any forecast, making triumph a new way of doing politics that marks the entry to a new age of interrelationship between countries worldwide. A few months before it seemed – according to all the polls – […]
“La arquitectura, la ciudad, característica del movimiento moderno, se ha estructurado mayoritariamente en un explícito reflejo de las jerarquías económicas (producción y consumo) de la sociedad. Lo cual ha ocasionado que en gran parte de esa ciudad, vertebrada a partir de la Revolución Industrial, no haya lugar ni señas de identificación con nada que no corresponda al proyecto colectivo para […]
“A place can be defined as a place of identity, relational and historical, a space that cannot be defined as a space of identity not as relational not as historically, one will define not place. (…)” “Not places, spaces of anonymity”, Marc Augé The cities make up, turned into perfect images, to be able to sham for what the company […]
Entered the 21st century there has vanished the city of the technologies of the information that were prophesying, a few decades ago, the futurólogos disguised as gurus. Neither it has come near to the totalitarian tecnópolis denounced by the nostalgic ones of “any last time always is better”. It turns out interesting to revise the bold Messianic predictions that the […]
We are the first generation of the history that forms a part of an immersed company in an unstoppable process of desmaterialización; whereas as architects we continue working with the slow and costly transformation of the materiality. The information has placed in the center of the economic, political, social and cultural development of our company, and there marks each of […]
In plenary session s. The XXIst our company tries to adapt to the fast transformation of the commanding current models, who are antagonistic over those that they predominated in last century. The company is situated immersed in a transition towards a new paradigm that already one was coming preparing from the Cold War, transition that we are experiencing as a […]
Gradually we turn into nomads without an own space not defined. We are forced to live in a time that we do not control and that ranges between different worlds that we have to manage interpret to manage the commitments to which it forces us. We live immersed in different universes that they superpose and interact forming a great mosaic […]
Entered in s. The XXIst, our company is adapting to a rapid transformation of the commanding models in the previous century, is situated immersed in a transition towards a new paradigm informacional1. These changes affect every citizen in the collective and private areas, and blur the borders that exist between them putting in crisis limits of the industrial company. We […]
Our lives develop concerning the new technologies of the information and the communication (TIC) turned – in a few years – in driving tools of a global transformation; technologies from which the new paradigm structures informacional1, axis of a development where the networks of global cities and the connections that join them are the engine of the global world. Estas […]