Abstract
The rationale of architecture was a significant basis in the conception and development of the European city up to the second half of the twentieth century, when the social sciences progressively invaded the theoretical and practical fields of urban and territorial planning. These days the role of architecture is normally confined to the building stages and sometimes stretched to tackle the design of some specific places and elements of the urban space. In any case the ‘savoirs’ of architecture are displayed only after other relevant decisions for the construction of the urban environment had been taken along the planning process. This study assumes that the rationale of architecture could play a part from the early stages of conception of the contemporary urban, and that can be extended to other territorial sceneries than those of the conventional city. The hypothesis discussed here is that, in these situations, a fundamental starting point for an ex-ante architectural approach to urban development can be found in the structural syntheses of natural and man-made elements that frame, organize and shape the space patterns of these types of territories: rural, natural or the complex ‘built and void’ tissues extended over most peripheries of the contemporary metropolis. And such an approach also suggests that relevant environmental, landscape, and other resource conditions, or the heritage traces there existing, should be turned into prime active factors of the rationale behind the construction of the new urban environment.
Presenters
Luis Felipe AlonsoProfessor in planning and Territorial Planning (Retired), Urbanistica y ordenación del Territorio, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura Madrid (Politechnc University Madrid) , Madrid, Spain
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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Site, Rural, Urban, Landscape Architecture, Project Planning
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