The wisdom to find structural similarity among things

Authors

  • Mauricio Pinilla Acevedo Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá

Keywords:

Rother, polytechnic education, analogy, memory

Abstract

Through the study of a public building designed by Leopold Rother in the city of Barranquilla, on the Colombian Caribbean coast, this article reflects on the potential of polytechnic education to find, in memory and history, the keys to develop architecture using the tools of analogy and composition. It delves into the poetic power of the polytechnic method when faced with the landscape and climate of a building’s location, and when incorporating the array of works that influence the designer - in this case, outlining the role played by the catalog of the 1943 Brazil Builds exhibition in New York’s MOMA.

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Published

2014-06-13

How to Cite

Pinilla Acevedo, M. (2014). The wisdom to find structural similarity among things. ARQUITECTURAS DEL SUR, 32(45), 104–117. Retrieved from https://revistas.ubiobio.cl/index.php/AS/article/view/752

Issue

V.32, N.45 (Junio 2014): ARQUITECTURA MODERNA EN LATINOAMÉRICA

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