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Call for papers Revista de Arquitectura N.º 47. 

Ways of looking at architectural sustainability + FREE THEME

 

Deadline for receipt of articles:  September 10, 2024

Guidelines for authors: https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/about/submissions

CRITICAL STATUS. Between disinterest, inattention and ignorance of project´s theory and criticism in Chile

Authors

  • Fabián Barros Di Giammarino Universidad Finis Terrae
  • Oscar Aceves Álvarez Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana

Abstract

That critical architectural reflection is in trouble at the national level is not a mystery to any attentive observer. This article proposes some causes of the supposed “capitulation” of criticism. If it seems like gibberish that many take advantage of, but where few show their competence, it is due to a series of intellectual, disciplinary and sociocultural conditions that favor the lack of commitment and emptiness of the plot. Under a tangled national disciplinary context, with difficulties to influence the debate as it is 'suffocated' between the 'scientism' of academic publications and the arbitrariness of the networks, it is shown how the questioning, discrediting and servility of criticism has place today: being the prey of a convenient neutrality, of rejection and, even, of an apparent ignorance. Acknowledging this would help, by contrast, to suggest the need to value a specific, accurate and committed critical reflection.

Keywords:

criticism, crisis, theory, project, Chile