LIVING ARCHITECTURE
(a visual
analysis)
Patricia Gómez Jaramillo
Architect, Artist, Critic of Art
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INTRODUCTION
Historically, a tent has been the principal form of habitation for nomadic groups: The Bedouins in Africa, the Mongols in Asia, and the Tibetan pastors. Tradition establishes that it is the women who knit all the necessary things for the family, including the housing. The tents could have several rooms, and among the Moslems they perform the same separation for the women and the men visitors. The group or tribe is recognized by the color and form of the fabric, such as by wool, sheep or Yak hair. Light and portable, is how this uprooting lifestyle is reflected, that of perpetual movement. More and more of these nomads have opted to form cities in which to live. Paradoxical: they are the refugees from the world in which they end up living in, without hope, in settlements of precariously made tents or of disposable material. "The
ecological crisis is a crisis of the character, that is, of culture… Our
culture and our places are images of each other and inseparable from each
other, and so neither can be better than the other." "Regionalism
is life of the local, conscious of its self." "In
the fifty’s a region was academically defined as a geographical center
surrounded by "an area where nature acts in a roughly uniform manner.
Today a region is generally understood not as politically or geographically
delimited space but one determined by stories, loyalties, group identity,
common experiences and histories (often unrecorded), a state of mind rather
than a place on a map." "
There exists a savage place (a wilderness): it is the modern city."
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