The adventure of practicing architects: (hi)story(ies) of architecture
- Autores: Julio Barreno Gutiérrez
- Localización: Critic-all III International Conference on Architectural Design & Criticism: digital Proceedings / Silvia Colmenares Vilata (dir.), Luis Rojo (dir.), 2018, págs. 30-37
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Giambattista Vico proposes us to have a heroic mind, a mind capable of going beyond the knowledge of artifacts to arrive definitively to human history, a process in which we implicitly recognize our own motives and purposes. We can imaginatively reconstruct human thoughts and experiences by narrating our own actions and experiences. Through our narratives we shape the way we recognize ourselves and the way that others recognize us.
Architecture, including constructed forms, is a communication medium capable of emitting signs, particularly visual signs, which can be received by others. An architectural practice is a medium of generating subjectivity, creating a biography, and constructing narratives that can affect us and shape others; narratives capable of generating culture and history too.
Narratives, as true statements that make up our “biographies” and our “universes in themselves”, and as fragments, can participate in the configuration of a certain history. We try to determine the ability of architecture to participate in the generation of a “historical a priori” of those related statements that contribute to the definition of a certain discursive positivism characterized by its unity in time. With this, we can see the extent to which certain Authors have talked about the same thing or displayed the same visual field, and why others did not talk about the same topics. An emergence of statements that move away from the monotonous and inert to enter into the complexity of the heterogeneous are deployed according to specific rules drawn from the very thickness of those discursive practices that establish the statements as true facts.
We try to address the history of architecture from its statements, from its narratives, trying to escape from the already-told story and provoke the appearance of other truths obscured by automatisms until now.
