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20/21: What Have We Learned? Twilight Architecture. Some notes on gray areas
The pandemic made us change our ways of life, both domestically and publicly. With no certainty about the future and no confidence in the past, we move into a weird present in which our expectations are on hold, but our senses are more active than ever. Meanwhile, the question about the city's...
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| Published in: | ARQ (Santiago, Chile) Chile), 2021-04, Vol.107, p.150 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | eng ; spa |
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| Summary: | The pandemic made us change our ways of life, both domestically and publicly. With no certainty about the future and no confidence in the past, we move into a weird present in which our expectations are on hold, but our senses are more active than ever. Meanwhile, the question about the city's future after the pandemic (and therefore, of architecture) has taken a space previously occupied by business leadership or financial analysis seminars. We are living at a turning point, without much idea of where our destiny will turn. The temporal and spatial arc between 2019 in the streets to 2020 in confinement led us to wonder whether something will remain the same. We have seen how the solidity of the grounds on which we are accustomed to living was diluted. That which the real threat of global warming did not accomplish, the spread of a virus forced us to accept. Our hopes - those that remain - are pinned on this new year. Hence, between 2020 and 2021 there is a break, a cut. The 'slash' separating the 20 and the 21 in this issue's title marks that disruption, that change. Have we learned anything from all this? Does what we have recently experienced change our point of view? Or will we pretend nothing happened and continue as we have been until now? |
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| ISSN: | 0716-0852 0717-6996 |
| DOI: | 10.4067/S0717-69962021000100150 |