Iconographic Exposition
Designing the space, giving space to values
Phenomenological Cartography as Appropriation of the Inhabited: Gender and City Workshops in Malaga, Spain
The case study of the Gender and City workshops, developed between 2011 and 2015 by the City Council of Malaga (Spain), exemplifies how actual representativeness allows the city’s appropriation by those participating. For this, it is essential to start from a gender dimension approach to get to know the city. The collaborative in situ mapping […]
2001- Odyssey at the Academy: They Draw
The construction of the spaces we inhabit is not neutral, nor is the production of knowledge as both have a cultural meaning. Design is limited, organized, and valued by androcentric power structures and, consequently, architecture universalizes a masculine model as a neutral one but women bodies and those of minorities are absent, repressed and forgotten. […]
On Performance. Addressing Environmental Phenomena in Architecture, from Representation to Discourse
In addressing the urgency to revise architectural drawings, under the pressing demands for sustainability, this essay considers theoretical underpinnings on architectural performance and specific case studies, centering on modernist and contemporary architects whose work has engaged with bridging concerns about form with energy efficiency, thermal comfort and climate control. The diagrammatic section, tracing tangible and […]
Urgent Expressions between Science and Society
The essay is a consideration on the relationship between visuality and the urgencies that often live science and society. The assumption that thought is structured through images and that images guide thought is the backdrop to research that crosses the world of visuality. Thanks to images and drawing it is possible to find answers to […]
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