No. 9 (2016)

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    Hacia una nueva epistemología de la teoría urbana y arquitectónica
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2016-07) Contreras Escandón, Christian
    This article is a theoretical reflection review of colonialism and modernity. Some authors called Latin American critical thought suggest that after the end of colonialism and colonial administrations, has established a worldsystem, where the coloniality and modernity are two sides of the same coin, and Western epistemology dominates over other epistemologies. With the background of this critical position, there is a need to review urban approaches from a decolonial perspective, and intends to discuss contemporary urban and architectural theory from the perspective of modernity / coloniality. In conclusion it arises move to specific areas of teaching urban / architectural design, in Latin American universities, the analysis of the crisis of legitimacy of modern knowledge and its global impact.
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    ¿Qué le pasaba a la arquitectura moderna? reflexiones de un simposio de 1948
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2016) Rodríguez García, Raúl
    On October 11th 1947, Lewis Mumford dedicated his column “The Sky Line” in ‘The New Yorker’ to the architecture of the Bay Region Style. Mumford presented his ideas about this trend while expressing his ambivalence in how the United States were receiving the European architecture of the International Style. That article helped to trigger a symposium at the MoMA of New York. The head figures of the architecture of the moment attended this symposium: Gropius, Breuer, Saarinen, Chermayeff, Nowicki, Hitchcock, Johnson, Barr, Scully, Blake… and Mumford himself. The title of the symposium seemed ambitious: “What Is Happening to Modern Architecture?” Although the speakers did not come to an agreement, their speeches shed light on issues that many thought but only few dared to note: modern architecture did not convinced society and it became an elitist product only for architects. One decade later these were crucial characteristics for Robert Venturi.