urban design changes are cultural changes correlate
By Juliet Roffo.
Source: Diario ClarÃn. 19/09/2010
neon signs inviting the theater, dizzying heights buildings, traffic lights everywhere, fast food outlets. All that the eye detects if it crosses the landscape around the Obelisk. It is usual but there was not some 70 or 80 years, when neither were the Puente de la Mujer or the skyscrapers that make Puerto Madero in the setting of a futuristic comic book.
These changes in the appearance of the city, which can only be seen by contrasting a bygone era to the present, are profiled in the book Buenos Aires Yesterday and Today (My Special Book), an investigation that the architects Laura Weber, Carla Rabey and Susan Levin Mesquida-specialized assets, conducted for the City and Culture Foundation.
Focusing on the Centro, Retiro, Palermo, Belgrano, La Boca, San Telmo and the port The book collects photos from file-some unpublished-of the 30 and 40, and compares them with current footage obtained from the same place with the same perspective. Thus it is possible to accurately assess the changes that time brought with it both the architecture and culture, is that development projects in a time account for cultural phenomena as complex as that vision is a society at the time that the faces (see "Now ...").
Levin said one of the major reasons for the change in the appearance of the city: "While in the first decades of the twentieth century Buenos Aires and was adapted to the wide circulation of cars and was a place with high population density, at the end of 50 he joined the tower, and for 60 and 70 that modifies the landscape, "he says, and the photos you are right.
"The book you want to get a picture of a Buenos Aires changing which makes a correlation of t he changes in customs and culture of the locals," says Weber. Puerto Madero is an example of these changes means an area which at times was purely productive agro-export boom, now is a recreation area, where the locals go to enjoy the outdoors as well as services and housing.
Construction of Obelisk, Weber has also represented a major shift in how to see the city: "It was the starting point to build all the Avenida 9 de Julio entire blocks collapsed to unite the north and south of Buenos Aires, considering a mass movement," he explains.
One of the most sane of the new morality in the ways of living is given in the National Library: "Just where is the building designed by Clorindo Testa, now returned to complete the original project was the presidential residence, where Evita died, it was a neighborhood of large houses, but when the aristocratic families lost their purchasing power and population is dense, the emergence of large group homes and in that process gave rise to the Library, designed decades ago, it was another Buenos Aires, "says Weber.
Buenos Aires yesterday and today does not aspire to a nostalgic vision, but "invites reflection on the changes and continuities from the architectural, portray people living in the city," tell their authors.
These changes in the appearance of the city, which can only be seen by contrasting a bygone era to the present, are profiled in the book Buenos Aires Yesterday and Today (My Special Book), an investigation that the architects Laura Weber, Carla Rabey and Susan Levin Mesquida-specialized assets, conducted for the City and Culture Foundation.
Focusing on the Centro, Retiro, Palermo, Belgrano, La Boca, San Telmo and the port The book collects photos from file-some unpublished-of the 30 and 40, and compares them with current footage obtained from the same place with the same perspective. Thus it is possible to accurately assess the changes that time brought with it both the architecture and culture, is that development projects in a time account for cultural phenomena as complex as that vision is a society at the time that the faces (see "Now ...").
Levin said one of the major reasons for the change in the appearance of the city: "While in the first decades of the twentieth century Buenos Aires and was adapted to the wide circulation of cars and was a place with high population density, at the end of 50 he joined the tower, and for 60 and 70 that modifies the landscape, "he says, and the photos you are right.
"The book you want to get a picture of a Buenos Aires changing which makes a correlation of t he changes in customs and culture of the locals," says Weber. Puerto Madero is an example of these changes means an area which at times was purely productive agro-export boom, now is a recreation area, where the locals go to enjoy the outdoors as well as services and housing.
Construction of Obelisk, Weber has also represented a major shift in how to see the city: "It was the starting point to build all the Avenida 9 de Julio entire blocks collapsed to unite the north and south of Buenos Aires, considering a mass movement," he explains.
One of the most sane of the new morality in the ways of living is given in the National Library: "Just where is the building designed by Clorindo Testa, now returned to complete the original project was the presidential residence, where Evita died, it was a neighborhood of large houses, but when the aristocratic families lost their purchasing power and population is dense, the emergence of large group homes and in that process gave rise to the Library, designed decades ago, it was another Buenos Aires, "says Weber.
Buenos Aires yesterday and today does not aspire to a nostalgic vision, but "invites reflection on the changes and continuities from the architectural, portray people living in the city," tell their authors.
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