Figure and background. Architecture and public space in contemporary Montevideo

Authors

  • Liliana Carmona Universidad de la República, Montevideo

Keywords:

public space, architecture, memory, innovation, Uruguayan architecture

Abstract

This study of Montevideo's public spaces integrates the research "Conceptual mapping of Uruguayan architecture, 1985-2005", currently being developed at the Institute of History of Architecture UdelaR-Farq. Its objective is to elucidate the underlying conceptual foundations of recent architectural practice.

The hypothesis proposes that the post-dictatorship context, prone to retrieve a fractured past, and the future prospects opened by the paradigm crisis, produce the conceptual pair memory/innovation that tinges culture and architecture. Simultaneously, a local architecture with its long-lasting concepts continues to exist, indifferent to this polarity. These three attitudes are traced in interventions in public spaces as representations of culture and its historicity.

The study verifies practices that fit with prefigured ones, distinguishing different relationships between architecture and public space, understood as interactions between figure and background. These fluctuate between the scenic aspect, existential space and gravitation around icons.

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Author Biography

Liliana Carmona, Universidad de la República, Montevideo

Académica del Instituto de Historia de la Arquitectura (IHA), Facultad de Arquitectura

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Published

2011-12-13

How to Cite

Carmona, L. (2011). Figure and background. Architecture and public space in contemporary Montevideo. ARQUITECTURAS DEL SUR, 29(40), 56–69. Retrieved from https://revistas.ubiobio.cl/index.php/AS/article/view/798

Issue

V.29, N.40 (Diciembre 2011): ESPACIO PÚBLICO

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Article

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