El sentido de lugar de la arquitectura moderna. Edificio Plaza de Armas como respuesta al lugar. Emilio Duhart Harosteguy y asociados, Chile 1955

Abstract

The aim of this research is to study the sense of place as the basis of the Modern Movement project and to recover their fundamental statements by presenting them as an unavoidable aspect of the project, as a valid resource for projecting architecture.

In modern thought, the project facesand solvesthe construction ofform/shapethrough reflection process. The said processis based onprinciples and fundaments. Therefore, modern architecturecannotbeunderstoodfrom simplecommon sense.It needs to be addressedfrom reflection in order to understand how theproject will be developed.

The principles on which it is based, aspire to be universal, however, the program applied to each case is specific according to each place, generating on this way objects with a specific identity. This object identity is related to originality of its organizational structure which synthesizes functional, technical and geographic aspects which endows it with legality. For understanding which was the architectural criteria of sense of place that the Modern Movement states, it was carried out an analysis of a representative work of the modern thought. As a result, it is determined the strategies applied as a response to place and through a comparison with other valuable works of the same author it is observed its consideration is stated as a constant. Finallythese criteria islaid out asverified project tools to be incorporatedin the planningof newarchitectural designs.