LIVING ARCHITECTURE
(a visual
analysis)
Patricia Gómez Jaramillo
Architect, Artist, Critic of Art
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INTRODUCTION
This visual analysis called "Live Architecture" is focused from a poetic perspective. Without being acquainted with the multiple historic, environmental, cultural and constructive views, whose academic development has been presented in multiple publications and continues being a topic of study, our vision, from angle of the Arte Narturaleza centers around the visualization of these constructions like element of the landscape. Live architecture: We have called all those so called constructions that man carries out with materials originating from nature, without them being previously modified by means of an industrial transformation. In general, the considered examples comply with the use that continues with time, where the original function is effectively preserve. The terms of Live Architecture is related to that of vernacular architecture, whose study not only focused on the "domestic, native, in house or country." It is said for example, of industrial vernacularism and of modern vernacularism, modes of architectural expression that are continual and that refine historic form of constructing. On the other hand, it is interesting to note that in the United States they have made great developments in the field of applications in constructive traditional systems of low technology, adapting them to modern conditions. The possibility of applying traditional techniques to the realization of art projects, gives our study a particular interest from the perspective of art. Finally, for artists and architects, the interest in Live Architecture is also in the development of new conceptual tools for interpreting the environment. The phenomenon of globalization and migration makes that the place of origin and the landscape, always changing, the one in which we insert ourselves, demands with great attention a treatment and an interpretation. These considerations depend on a renovated interest in the recovery of the landscape and in the amplification of the content of the term. Today, the word landscape doesn't mean the design of gardens only; it also refers to the historic, urban, and regional landscape. In an amplification of its meaning, one must consider the environment from their possibilities and manifestations so diverse and rich, encircling "urbanism, infrastructure, the strategic planning, and speculative ideas besides the conventional notions of nature and environment." (James Coroner, Recovering Landscape, Princeton Architectural Press, 1999) The presentation assembles the selected example from the solid to the ethereal; that is to say, from the caves and constructions in stone, to light forms and transportable architecture. A series of dates that take into account multiple considerations of the topic accompany the images. The Colombian Live Architecture undertakes multiple expressions according to the different regions, cultures, and thermal areas understood in the national geography. The examples of Colombian architecture included in the visual gallery intend to show representative constructions of our patrimony, linking them, at the same time, with excellent examples from the global environment. A Small Synthesis of the Characteristics of Live Architecture:
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