Building on the discussing on formal aspects started in the first term, the politics generated by the SB in the city fabric after placed will be assessed and discussed. Collages and short texts will define each proposal critical position.
Afterwards, SB proposals will be interrogated regarding their relationships with its immediate context and the passer-by. The placement of the SB in its particular location will bring the context forward in the progress of design definition. Its capability in specific locations to engage with the city public space will be also put into question.
Readings
– Pier Vittorio Aureli, “Rossi: The Concept of the locus as a political category of the city”, in The Project of Autonomy, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008, pp.53-69.
– Rafael Moneo, “On Typology”, in Oppositions reader : selected readings from a journal for ideas and criticism in architecture, 1973-1984, New York : Princeton Arch Press, c1998.
– Francisco Gonzalez De Canales & Nicholas Ray (Ed):”Form” in Rafael Moneo : building, teaching, writing, New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.
– David Harvey: Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution, London; New York : Verso, 2012.
– Reinhold Martin: The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the city, University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Lecture: Canales & Lombardero, “New Formalism”, Lecture at Architectural Association, 2017.
