Edificios modernos educativos análisis comparativo Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Politécnica Nacional – Quito aulario I (bloque b), Universidad de Cuenca – campus Balzay – Cuenca

Abstract

The interest in understanding and comprehending how academic modern architecture was and is carried out was the primary motivation for undertaking this work. This thesis project focuses on modern architecture developed in two different periods in Ecuador: one originating from the 1960s in the city of Quito, and the second corresponding to a recent period, in 2021, in the city of Cuenca. Within this field of modern architecture, there have been investigations conducted by the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of Cuenca. Thanks to these, we have gained knowledge of a part of history where values of universality, and criteria of form and function, prevailed. Consequently, this research work performs a comparative analysis of the principles of modern architecture in two academic buildings from two different eras in Ecuador, and how these principles have varied over time—one designed by architect Mario Arias Salazar, and the other by the Duran & Hermida studio. An analytical-deductive approach is employed, focusing on the reconfiguration of case studies, where the standards used by the author in each work are detected. This will be validated through the examination of emblematic examples of universal scope, which will serve to establish the shared and/or distinctive traits or criteria that facilitate the evaluation, confirmation, confrontation, and debate of the particularities presented by both works. The aim of the work is to determine the modern formal and constructive values and decisions that have changed over time within the studied works, examining and validating characteristics or postulates of architectural quality.