PUCARA. Revista de Humanidades

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Los amigos del genuis loci
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2010) Páez Barrera, Oswaldo
Theorice and historice the concepts of genius loci (spirit of the place). Under the late capitalism the places dissapear, the critical theories reculate, the poetry languish. The capitalistic spaces get the deathly breath of the killing work, rejection to such situation reinvindicates spaces and memories, into actions that retake radical traditions. The situacionism is related with the search of the spirit of the place in this neoliberal crisis. The literary twist of the text, is a wink towards the value of individual narrations in the new conceptualizations related with the constitutional values of the new space and time of the multitude.
Ver lo mismo, pero con otros ojos: iconografía arquitectónica de la Cuenca histórica
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2011) Páez Barrera, Oswaldo
The topic of the patrimonial architecture of Cuenca-Ecuador is analyzed from the Latin American present social tensions which question the neoliberal visions and positions about the tangible patrimony. The notion about the “Historic Center”, which is discussed under the light of the archeological discoveries and recent patrimonial arguments, leads us to prefer the category of Historic City. The vernacular, indigenous and mestizo are proposed as central values of the tangible patrimony from a theoretical-historical view that argues its pertinence.