Ciudad y patrimonio
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Architecture
City
Heritage

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FERNÁNDEZ ALBA, A. (2002). Ciudad y patrimonio. Apuntes: Revista De Estudios Sobre Patrimonio Cultural, 22. https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/revApuntesArq/article/view/9096
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Abstract

One of the best spanish architects of the 2nd half of the XXth century, Antonio Fernández Alba, also an emeritus professor as well as a noted restorer of historic monuments in his country, refers to one of the theme : the fate of the city as cultural heritage. His vision is not that of the specialist but rather that of a critical surgeon, dissecting the historical and political processes according to which, in order to replace the "decrepit styles" inherited from the XIXth century, the architectural vanguards gradually institutionalized themselves into taxonomies of the bureaucratic state or crude ideological totalitarisms. The new functional forms couldn't be farther from presumed "historical forms" and their conservative duty, but ironically, they too have ended up being considered themselves as museum pieces. The new notions of emancipation, utopia and transgression dominated, at the end of the XXth century, the urban landscape. The proposed ideal was, by its nature itself, emancipatory and to achieve it utopias had to be proposed, all of which were failures or absurdities. The formal vanguards then busied themselves in transgressing, by means of their architectural proposals, the urban ambiance and in contaminating the conscience of citizens. The city of the past, that is, of memory, according to Fernández Alba, "has ended up being the protective shield for our spirit, because the industrial city, already consummated had already colonized our bodies and robotized our souls". The author refers in his text , with an ominous brilliance to the process of globalization of urban pathology and the disquieting abandon of the city of the past.



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