Arquitectura moderna en edificios académicos. Aproximación a los proyectos del Arq. Mario Arias Salazar entre los años 1957-1978

Abstract

The interest in knowing and understanding the different aspects of Modernity was the main reason that, from the beginning, motivated the realization of this work. With the purpose of delving into the Modernity, especially in the architecture aspect, this thesis project focuses on the Modern Architecture, developed within the fifties and seventies decades in the city of Quito. In relation to this orientation, and thanks to the research that has been done previously by the Architectonic Projects Master’s Degree, we have met a generation of architects that wrote one of the most important chapters of the architecture in our country, within a period in which it prevailed, in a way, the common sense based on a way of conceiving values that aspire to be universal; with form criteria, and stabilized by experience.

That is why that, through the approximation of the case study, this research has as a goal, in its first steps, of identifying, which are the modern criteria that is used in the university academic architecture in the previously mentioned period, using the archetype notion determination, criterion that is going to be analyzed and proved in the form construction, recognizing the form as the result of linking the place, the program, and the construction.

The intention will be to validate the system, through the analysis of representative universal examples, which will help to determine the existing common elements that will allow finding the current applicable resources for the project.

In this way, the main tool that will be used is the look of the redraw of five works of Mario Arias Salazar, an architect from Quito, a professional chosen because of his academic large-scale work, in which he tried to apply a coherent system while confronting this type of building.