Editorial 28
Something happens at night that completely changes our perception of things. The transparency of modern architecture, in this world of electricity loses its characteristics to acquire the opposite: it becomes bright. What is reflective becomes transparent. A building with many volumetric details bec...
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oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article-561232021-01-21T18:03:10Z Editorial 28 Editorial 28 López Uribe, Cristina Something happens at night that completely changes our perception of things. The transparency of modern architecture, in this world of electricity loses its characteristics to acquire the opposite: it becomes bright. What is reflective becomes transparent. A building with many volumetric details becomes flat. Tall buildings escape beyond our sight in the shadows.The streets are illuminated and the pavements and textures become clearer to our sight. When history has studied night and darkness it has generally done so from the point of view of lighting, and from the progressive achievement of illuminating cities -as an indicator of social progress. Few have been those who have made history from the point of view of darkness, and written about the many ways in which men and women have faced the night. About their relationship with an event of an actual cosmological significance.Night and darkness have –naturally– been associated by men with feelings of a negative connotation, as insecurity or fear, and with the greatest of them all: the fear of the unknown. Anything could happen at night, it is the territory where all the monsters and terrors of our ancestors live, and where wizards and witches make their appearance to protect us against entities that are immaterial –because we cannot see them. Algo sucede de noche que cambia completamente la percepción que tenemos de las cosas; la transparencia de la arquitectura moderna, en este mundo de luz eléctrica pierde sus características al adquirir la contraria: se vuelve brillante. Lo reflejante se hace transparente. Un edificio de muchos detalles volumétricos se convierte en plano. Los edificios altos escapan de nuestra vista entre las sombras. Las calles se iluminan y se ven con mayor claridad los pavimentos, las texturas.La noche y la oscuridad han sido asociadas por el ser humano -de forma natural- con sensaciones negativas como inseguridad y temor, sobre todo el más grande de todos: el miedo a lo desconocido. Cualquier cosa podía suceder de noche; es el territorio donde viven todos los monstruos y los terrores de nuestros antepasados, y donde hacen su aparición los magos y brujos que protegen contra los entes que son inmateriales -porque no los podemos ver. Estas afirmaciones, que pueden parecer antiguas para nosotros, siguen siendo vigentes. En la actualidad seguimos asociando la luz nocturna con la seguridad, cuando las evidencias muestran que durante la noche ocurren muchos menos crímenes. Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2016-06-10 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf application/xml https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/56123 10.22201/fa.14058901p.2014.28.56123 Bitacora Arquitectura; No. 28 (2014): Architecture, City and Darkness; 2 Bitácora Arquitectura; Núm. 28 (2014): Arquitectura, Ciudad y Oscuridad; 2 2594-0856 1405-8901 10.22201/fa.14058901p.2014.28 spa https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/56123/49775 https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/56123/59555 Derechos de autor 2016 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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Something happens at night that completely changes our perception of things. The transparency of modern architecture, in this world of electricity loses its characteristics to acquire the opposite: it becomes bright. What is reflective becomes transparent. A building with many volumetric details becomes flat. Tall buildings escape beyond our sight in the shadows.The streets are illuminated and the pavements and textures become clearer to our sight. When history has studied night and darkness it has generally done so from the point of view of lighting, and from the progressive achievement of illuminating cities -as an indicator of social progress. Few have been those who have made history from the point of view of darkness, and written about the many ways in which men and women have faced the night. About their relationship with an event of an actual cosmological significance.Night and darkness have –naturally– been associated by men with feelings of a negative connotation, as insecurity or fear, and with the greatest of them all: the fear of the unknown. Anything could happen at night, it is the territory where all the monsters and terrors of our ancestors live, and where wizards and witches make their appearance to protect us against entities that are immaterial –because we cannot see them. |
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