Artworks

The Echo from Society: Architecture and Contemporary Challenges Out of Established Agendas

The relationship between architecture and society has been recurrent since the Industrial Revolution and the beginning of the modern city. Architecture has since then offered the framework for the construction of the public realm, and at the same time has provided protection, safeness and identity to the individual human being, facing the immensity of the metropolis. The dialectic between society and community, originally defined by Tönnies, Simmel, Park and Wirth among others, has evolved towards a complex debate in the 21st century, imbricated with the postcolonial discourse as well as of gender, race and age and the outstanding figures of Castells, Sassen, and Bhabha among others. The‘Architecture and Society’ section aims to encompass this wide range of topics, which we consider to be representative of the contemporary challenges of the discipline in order to achieve the final goal of creating places. The selection incorporates the works of architects and urban planners currently engaged in this production, building a narrative that explores a response –an echo- to the current needs of local communities in the framework of global societies; among them Francis Kéré, Ecosistema Urbano, Jorge Raedó, Rural Urban Framework, Andrés Jaque, Wang Zigeng and Instituto Pedra.

Participants

Francis Kéré, Ecosistema Urbano, Jorge Raedó, Rural Urban Framework, Andrés Jaque, Zigeng Wang, Instituto Pedra