Religious architecture and civic participation: Two churches by Fernando Rodríguez-Concha
During the 60s and 70s of the 20th century many socially engaged architects experimented, with varying degrees of success, a type of work called citizen participation or community architecture. The Mexican architect Fernando Rodríguez-Concha was one of them. The peculiar social situation his country...
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oai:ojs.www.unisinos.br:article-82942021-08-30T19:09:21Z Religious architecture and civic participation: Two churches by Fernando Rodríguez-Concha Arquitectura religiosa y participación ciudadana: dos iglesias de Fernando Rodríguez Concha Fernández-Cobián, Esteban Orozco-Velázquez, Verónica During the 60s and 70s of the 20th century many socially engaged architects experimented, with varying degrees of success, a type of work called citizen participation or community architecture. The Mexican architect Fernando Rodríguez-Concha was one of them. The peculiar social situation his country was facing in the 50s prompted his civic engagement—his deep sense of the public realm or his view of the political nature of architecture—which began in the university classroom and was subsequently expressed in various fields of his work as an architect: technical support to small local cooperatives, commitment to independent teaching in higher education, rehabilitation of degraded urban neighborhoods, religious architecture, etc. This article aims to show how his ethical and social commitment materialized through the construction of several community projects. Among them two Catholic churches in Puebla, his hometown, Huexotitla and Las Animas, stand out. These are two churches which, due to their original construction solutions—derived from both his successful collaboration with engineers and users and the architect’s formal intuition—and for their own clear plastic force have become paradigmatic examples of Mexican religious architecture in the second half of the 20th century. Keywords: religious architecture, civic participation, Fernando Rodríguez- Concha, México, Puebla. Durante los años sesenta y setenta del siglo XX, muchos arquitectos socialmente comprometidos experimentaron, con mayor o menor fortuna, una modalidad de trabajo que se denominó participación ciudadana o arquitectura comunitaria. El arquitecto mexicano Fernando Rodríguez Concha fue uno de ellos. La peculiar situación social que atravesaba su país durante los años cincuenta motivó que su compromiso cívico —su profundo sentido de lo público o su visión de la naturaleza política de la arquitectura— se iniciase ya desde las aulas universitarias para, posteriormente, desplegarse en diversos campos de su quehacer como arquitecto: apoyo técnico a pequeñas cooperativas locales, compromiso con la docencia superior independiente, recuperación urbana de barrios degradados, arquitectura religiosa, etc. Este artículo quiere mostrar cómo este compromiso ético y social se materializó a través de la construcción de varios proyectos comunitarios, entre los que destacan dos iglesias católicas en Puebla, su ciudad natal: Huexotitla y Las Ánimas. Dos iglesias que por sus originales soluciones constructivas —derivadas tanto de su afortunada colaboración con ingenieros y usuarios como de la propia intuición formal del arquitecto— y por su evidente fuerza plástica han quedado como ejemplos paradigmáticos de la arquitectura religiosa mexicana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX.Palabras clave: arquitectura religiosa, participación ciudadana, Fernando Rodríguez Concha, México, Puebla. Unisinos 2015-01-29 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/arquitetura/article/view/arq.2014.102.04 10.4013/arq.2014.102.04 Arquitetura Revista; v. 10 n. 2 (2014): Jul-Dez; 78-90 1808-5741 spa https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/arquitetura/article/view/arq.2014.102.04/4485 |
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During the 60s and 70s of the 20th century many socially engaged architects experimented, with varying degrees of success, a type of work called citizen participation or community architecture. The Mexican architect Fernando Rodríguez-Concha was one of them. The peculiar social situation his country was facing in the 50s prompted his civic engagement—his deep sense of the public realm or his view of the political nature of architecture—which began in the university classroom and was subsequently expressed in various fields of his work as an architect: technical support to small local cooperatives, commitment to independent teaching in higher education, rehabilitation of degraded urban neighborhoods, religious architecture, etc. This article aims to show how his ethical and social commitment materialized through the construction of several community projects. Among them two Catholic churches in Puebla, his hometown, Huexotitla and Las Animas, stand out. These are two churches which, due to their original construction solutions—derived from both his successful collaboration with engineers and users and the architect’s formal intuition—and for their own clear plastic force have become paradigmatic examples of Mexican religious architecture in the second half of the 20th century. Keywords: religious architecture, civic participation, Fernando Rodríguez- Concha, México, Puebla. |
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