Artículo

Disarming Architecture

Del Real, Patricio

Facultad de Arquitectura, UNAM, publicado en Bitácora Arquitectura ( (Revistas UNAM)

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Entidad o dependencia
Facultad de Arquitectura, UNAM
Revista
Bitácora Arquitectura
Repositorio
Revistas UNAM
Contacto
Revistas UNAM. Dirección General de Publicaciones y Fomento Editorial, UNAM en revistas@unam.mx

Cita

Del Real, Patricio (2016). Disarming Architecture. Bitácora Arquitectura; Núm. 32, 2016: El Habitar Doméstico; 130-133. Recuperado de https://repositorio.unam.mx/contenidos/4138596

Descripción del recurso

Autor(es)
Del Real, Patricio
Tipo
Artículo de Divulgación
Área del conocimiento
Multidisciplina
Título
Disarming Architecture
Fecha
2016-08-26
Resumen
The superblocks built by the Banco Obrero in Caracas, the 2 de diciembre housing project -today 23 de enero– with which we started the housing component of the exhibition Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955- 1980, was, along with Cerro Piloto, the most important project of the National Housing Plan implemented in Caracas in the 1950s by the architects of the Taller del Banco Obrero (tabo). Built in lightning speed, these were massive urban planning operations that aimed to transform the physical environment of the city by eradicating Caracas’ shantytowns through large investments in public works. Speed and economy justified their crudeness and modest finishes, their serial production and repetitive imprint. Their rationalized production and construction was addressed with a use of color that aimed to transform these housing blocks into a colossal abstract geometric composition installed in the landscape. Under Carlos Raúl Villanueva’s watchful and masterful eye we encounter a model for the concrete appropriation of the sensible and of the natural; a model to be repeated, amplified and extended.
Idioma
spa
ISSN
ISSN electrónico: 2594-0856; ISSN impreso: 1405-8901

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