Architecture as fluid technology. The housing blocks by Corporación de la Vivienda of Chile

Bibliographic Data

ID4448009
AuthorsJorge Eduardo Vergara Vidal (0000-0002-7712-4090, Metropolitan University of Technology, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume6
Issue1
Publication date2023-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTapuya Latin American Science Technology and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2572-9861 • E-ISSN: 2572-9861
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/25729861.2023.2273682
OpenAlexW4389305385
LanguageEN
References cited13

In a general sense, architecture and technology articulate two modes of evaluation of objects and built environments; however, are there conditions that allow us to consider architectural works as technologies? This paper explores this possibility by analyzing bibliographic, documentary, and planimetric information on housing blocks developed by the state agency, Corporación de la Vivienda (CORVI), between 1953 and 1974. Using Process Tracing as a method of analysis, milestones were identified that showed the ways in which the design and production of this typology were influenced by a regime of values based on the idea of rationalization, and that the heterogeneity of its cases showed flexibility and adaptation to the ways of calculating and realizing this value. The conclusions address the causality observed between value and typology in this case, and suggest that this behavior expresses a technological condition of architecture

Archaeology · Architectural engineering · Economics · Epistemology · Management · Sociology · Tracing · Typology · Anthropology · Architecture, Art, Education · Computer Science · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Engineering · History · Latin American Urban Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Architecture

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