In 1992, an issue of the new series of 'Zodiac', edited by Guido Canella, was published to commemorate the five-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. It brought together projects by leading Latin American architects and a series of essays on the architecture of the continent written by distinguished scholars of South American culture. Among these contributions was a brief text written in the first-person plural which, in an almost epic narrative, recounted the endeavours of a group of architects and teachers, poets, philosophers, and sculptors associated with the Valparaíso School in Chile, at that time almost entirely unknown in Europe and certainly little known in Italy. Today, this experience is widely recognised, having itself become part of the global network of schools of architecture. At the time, however—and indeed still today—the Valparaíso School represented one of the most significant experiments in architecture and architectural education to have emerged in Latin America, and beyond, from the post-war period to the present.
Nel 1992 venne pubblicato un numero della nuova serie della rivista «Zodiac» diretta da Guido Canella che celebrava i cinquecento anni della scoperta dell’America 1 e raccoglieva diversi progetti di importanti architetti latinoamericani e una successione di saggi sull’architettura di quel continente scritti da illustri studiosi della cultura sudamericana. Tra i vari contributi compariva un breve testo scritto in prima persona plurale, che raccontava, in forma quasi epica, delle gesta di un gruppo di docenti architetti, poeti, filosofi e scultori, fino ad allora quasi completamente sconosciuto in Europa e sicuramente in Italia 2 appartenenti alla Scuola di Valparaíso in Cile. Questa esperienza oggi molto conosciuta perché anch’essa entrata a far parte del sistema globale delle università di architettura nel mondo, rappresentava allora e rappresenta tutt’ora una delle sperimentazioni più rilevanti, dal secondo dopoguerra a oggi, dell’architettura e dell’insegnamento nell’America Latina e non solo.
Il monumento sulla sabbia. L’Agorà de Tronquoy, Ciudad Abierta, Valparaíso
t. brighenti
2025-01-01
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In 1992, an issue of the new series of 'Zodiac', edited by Guido Canella, was published to commemorate the five-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. It brought together projects by leading Latin American architects and a series of essays on the architecture of the continent written by distinguished scholars of South American culture. Among these contributions was a brief text written in the first-person plural which, in an almost epic narrative, recounted the endeavours of a group of architects and teachers, poets, philosophers, and sculptors associated with the Valparaíso School in Chile, at that time almost entirely unknown in Europe and certainly little known in Italy. Today, this experience is widely recognised, having itself become part of the global network of schools of architecture. At the time, however—and indeed still today—the Valparaíso School represented one of the most significant experiments in architecture and architectural education to have emerged in Latin America, and beyond, from the post-war period to the present.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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