Architectures of the great city

intermediate modernities

Authors

  • Horacio Torrent, Dr. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Chile

Abstract

Modern architecture built the cities and shaped the process of urban concentration in Chile between 1930-1960, a process involving not only a metropolis like Santiago but also intermediate cities. Both public and private architecture led the spatial transformation of the city, understood as the engine of economic growth relying on building industry and modern architecture. Modern architecture unified clear ideas on a new kind of city that unfolded along the territory. Recurrent historiographical interpretation of the urban phenomenon and actual transformation of the cities has given greater importance to capital or larger cities, overshadowing the consideration of the phenomenon’s extension to the entire territory. The examples of Osorno (1930s), Chillán (1940s) and Arica (1950-1960s) show the temporal transit of modern ideas and the dialectical relationship between modern architecture and the city.

Keywords: Chilean arquitecture; modernity; urban development.

Author Biography

Horacio Torrent, Dr., Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Chile

Architect, National University of Rosario, Argentina, 1985. Master in Architecture, PUC.Ch. Of 2001. PhD, National University of Rosario, 2006.

Professor of the National University of the Coast (Argentina) between 1990 and 1997, and Researcher CIUNR 1990-2002. He was Director of the University Center Rosario Urban and Regional Research between 1990 and 1994; And project coordinator Sergio Larraín García-Moreno Information and Documentation Development Center of PUC 1996-2001.

He has taught in graduate programs at the Central University of Venezuela, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, National Autonomous University of Mexico, National University of Rosario, Argentina.

She has conducted research on the origins of modern architecture and has published articles on the architectural culture of Chile and Latin America in various national and foreign books and magazines.

He currently teaches at the School of Architecture of the Catholic University of Chile and a member of the Doctoral Committee.

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Published

2017-07-10

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 3 (2017): Cidades Latino Americanas

Section

Artigos