LIVING ARCHITECTURE
(a visual
analysis)
Patricia Gómez Jaramillo
Architect, Artist, Critic of Art
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INTRODUCTION
It is important to keep in mind that the development of the construction of permanent housings is neither homogeneous nor necessarily progressive. In the Neolithic revolution, between approximately 8000 and 6000 years BC gives rise to shepherding and agriculture cultures from what were previously hunters and collectors. Appearing around this time the first habitations or cities. In Jericó, we find housings constructed in earth forming walled panels by means of oblong adobes. In Katal Huyuk they have found 9 superimposed stratums, where above the houses in adobe, on stone foundations, cabins made of straw were subsequently constructed. Here the houses were rectangular in form, the materials were adobe and wood, and the access was constructed in the superior part. The migratory condition of the first humans, dictated by the conditions of gathering food and by hunting in several regions, made the construction of a permanent place for housing impossible. In proportion to the development of stable patrons for hunting and gathering, the most advantageous locations, like caves, and hill sites in the vicinity of water and food, began to be re-visited with greater frequency. This gives rise to three types of stone construction: the cave or a construction formed by the extraction of a hillside or rocky channel, the construction made with dry stone, that is to say without mortar, and the construction with the stone stuck together. The caves that were used as temporal habitation, in the time give way to constructions that adhere to cavity, creating a continuous between excavation and new constructions. Today we find troglodytes in Spain, France, Italy, and in north of Africa. The characteristics of stone construction are their permanence, archetypal force, and unity.
"The physical world is spirit seen from without and that the spiritual world is the physical viewed from another dimension." Elaine Jhaner: from the Lakota Indians, cited by Lippard, Lucy. The Lure of the Local, The New Press, New York, 1997. "There is no contrast of the natural and the spiritual, and there is no geography without history and meaning. The land is already a narrative - an artefact of intelligence - before people represent it… there is no wilderness." Elaine Jhaner, of the Australian aborigines, cited by Lippard, Lucy. Op. cit. According to John Stilgoe, the origin of the word landscape comes from the German Landschaft, meaning formed earth, on the whole of constructions in a place, like opposition to the surrounding nature. Subsequently, in Dutch landskip denominated a painting of an open place perceived like a great expansion. "The landscape is the external world mediated through the human subjective experience." Denis Cosgrove, English geographer. "The landscape is perceived from a distance, in a more visual way than sensual, seen more than felt in all her affective power." Lippard, Lucy Op. Cit. "The landscape is a kind of "activity" - a way of seeing the world and imagining our relationship to nature." Alexander Wilson "If labor is the mediator between nature and culture, as Marx says in Kapital, landscape as a result of labor is a synthesis, resting somewhere between the two." Lucy Lippard, Op. Cit.
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