On scarcity: Is half of the house enough? Thoughts on the Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena

On scarcity: Is half of the house enough? Thoughts on the Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena

This article proposes a political agenda for a disciplinary trespassing against capitalist rule drawing upon the reasons that worthed a Pritzker award and the curative job in Venice Biennale for Alejandro Aravena. In both cases, the institutions argued that Aravena embodies a social architect with a...

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Main Authors: Vergara Perucich, Francisco, Boano, Camillo
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Published: Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo 2016
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spelling oai:ojs.revistas.uchile.cl:article-425162018-03-14T20:37:48Z On scarcity: Is half of the house enough? Thoughts on the Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena Bajo escasez ¿Media casa basta? Reflexiones sobre el Pritzker de Alejandro Aravena Vergara Perucich, Francisco Boano, Camillo This article proposes a political agenda for a disciplinary trespassing against capitalist rule drawing upon the reasons that worthed a Pritzker award and the curative job in Venice Biennale for Alejandro Aravena. In both cases, the institutions argued that Aravena embodies a social architect with an agenda oriented to aid people living on scarcity. Along the article are revealed the ideological nature of these nominations and it exposes the necessity for emancipating architecture from the subjugation to profitability, capital accumulation, and power's reproduction. The subjugation to capital has destroyed the creative nature of the discipline, triggering a crisis whose release may be tackled through more theory, collective organization, and exploring new modes of production. The article claims for leaving the comfort zone for embracing the radicalism as a possible path toward disciplinary liberation. El artículo construye una agenda política de transgresión disciplinar contra el capitalismo a partir de las razones que valieron para Alejandro Aravena un Premio Pritzker y la curatoría de la Bienal de Venecia 2016. En ambos casos, las instituciones patrocinantes han informado que se reconoce el rol de Aravena como arquitecto social con una agenda orientada a ayudar a las personas de escasos recursos. A lo largo del artículo se expone la naturaleza ideológica de estas nominaciones y se expone la necesidad de emancipar la arquitectura de la subyugación a los objetivos de la rentabilidad, acumulación de capital y reproducción de ciclos de poder. Se argumenta que este sometimiento al capital ha destruido la naturaleza creativa de la disciplina generando una crisis cuya salida puede darse con más teorización, organización colectiva y explorando nuevos modos de producción. Se convoca a salir de la zona de confort y abrazar la crítica como un camino posible hacia la liberación disciplinar. Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo 2016-11-25 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/article/view/42516 10.5354/0719-5427.2016.42516 Revista de Arquitectura; Vol. 21 Núm. 31 (2016): Arquitecturas colectivas; Pág. 37-46 0719-5427 0716-8772 spa https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/article/view/42516/46236
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description This article proposes a political agenda for a disciplinary trespassing against capitalist rule drawing upon the reasons that worthed a Pritzker award and the curative job in Venice Biennale for Alejandro Aravena. In both cases, the institutions argued that Aravena embodies a social architect with an agenda oriented to aid people living on scarcity. Along the article are revealed the ideological nature of these nominations and it exposes the necessity for emancipating architecture from the subjugation to profitability, capital accumulation, and power's reproduction. The subjugation to capital has destroyed the creative nature of the discipline, triggering a crisis whose release may be tackled through more theory, collective organization, and exploring new modes of production. The article claims for leaving the comfort zone for embracing the radicalism as a possible path toward disciplinary liberation.
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