Construir la ciudad: modernidad y neoracionalismo entre el simbolismo y la funcionalidad. Una mirada desde Europa a la arquitectura de América Latina

Abstract

This article is intended to alert reflection, from what inquired about certain aesthetic constructive rationalism and international modern movement in architecture, concordant and discordant issues and disagreements, similarities and dissimilarities that do arouse our curiosity from the context of Southern Europe to Latin America. Our attention is so focused through a re-visitation that we would not strung mediating topics and sets out a methodology that synthetically considerations earlier that while platitudes reflect estimates serve to channel issues raised in the intercontinental 'translation' of models whose viability may be more variability in stiffness. Translation to be completed, not mimetic but problematised translation socio-cultural aspects significant beyond architecture but affect the construction and configuration of the city as functional and symbolic form. Examples peripheral and central city, public square and functional symbolic of neo-rationalism reallocation help us find correspondences with these capitals of the new-old world.