Towards a territorial praxis
2017
Resumen Hoy, la profesion de la arquitectura se ha visto disminuida y el impacto de la disciplina, en algunos casos, es casi irrelevante para la produccion de nuestro mundo contemporaneo. En comparacion con otras profesiones, economistas, politicos, desarrolladores, cientificos de la computacion; los arquitectos juegan un modesto papel en la configuracion social, politica y fisica de nuestro mundo. Pareciera que con mayor frecuencia la arquitectura le importa solo a los arquitectos, puesto que el trabajo que se produce es admirado por la singularidad del objeto disenado. Es elogiado por su capacidad tecnica o caracteristicas esteticas, pero fuera del ambito de la vida cotidiana de la mayoria de las personas. Dentro del Programa de Posgrado Landscape Urbanism del Architectural Association School of Architecture y el estudio Groundlab, se aborda el surgimiento del “territorio” como campo para el ejercicio del diseno e investigacion y como forma de intervenirlo mediante el diseno, con la finalidad de incorporar la arquitectura dentro de un marco cada vez mas amplio y a la luz de la urgentes condiciones contemporaneas. Abstract Within current contemporary conditions the profession of Architecture has been diminished and the impact of the discipline in some cases is almost irrelevant to the production of our contemporary world. Compare to other professions, economists, politicians, developers, policy-makers, computer scientists, architecture plays a tiny role in shaping our world, socially, politically and physically. Architecture seems to increasingly matter only to architects and the work that is produced admired for the singularity of the designed object. It is praised by its technical ability or aesthetical features but outside the realm of the majority’s everyday life. In this essay we explain the emergence of “territory” as a field of design praxis as research and praxis by the Landscape Urbanism Master Programme at the Architectural Association and at Groundlab in order to incorporate architecture into a wider framework within current and urgent contemporary conditions and as way to intervene within it through design.
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