amereida: wandering around south america
Just out from NAi publishers is the new issue of OASE Journal of Architecture ON TERRITORIES. I contributed a piece on extraordinary work of the Catholic University of Valparaiso in Chile, and their travesías – journeys across the Americas. Below are more pictures of the travesía Queilen that did not make it into the article.
The Catholic University of Valparaiso (UCV)’s approach to research does not parallel the techno-rational understanding that ties science to industrial processes of calculation, standardization and reproduction. Instead, the school questions whether science has an undisputed claim over a modern examination of the world, and forwards poetic language as a tool that challenges and compliments scientific research. If empirical observation is the domain of scientific research, the UCV adds the measure of language to this system. This measure of language – ‘cálculo del lenguage’ – guides the examination of the territory and locates architectural production on the threshold of two geographies, by responding to the demands of poetic language and the pragmatics of prosaic living.
“Wandering Around: Architecture as threshold between Territory and Poetry,” OASE 80 (2009): 61-69.
(Photos courtesy of Iván Ivelic)
