El delirio de Lagos no es el de Nueva YorkRem Koolhaas y el protagonismo del autor-arquitecto en territorios conflictivos

  1. Victor Cano-Ciborro
Revista:
RA: revista de arquitectura

ISSN: 1138-5596

Año de publicación: 2021

Título del ejemplar: Who Designs Architecture? On Silenced and Superimposed Authorship / ¿Quién diseña la arquitectura? Sobre autorías silenciadas y superpuestas (Laura Martínez de Guereñu, Guest Editor / Editora invitada)

Número: 23

Páginas: 162-173

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.15581/014.23.162-173 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: RA: revista de arquitectura

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Resumen

The architect Rem Koolhaas, under the umbrella of the Harvard Project on the City, started studying the Nigerian city of Lagos at the end of the 20th century, a megacity that he ended up designating as the paradigm of the urban condition in the 21st century. Following that sentence, based on a superficial and purely formal analysis of a tremendously conflictive context, the article will make visible not only Koolhaas’ own statements, but also the criticisms that have considered this approach a selfabsorption of the figure of the architect. Thus, we will show how Koolhaas’ authority is counterproductive for the discipline and architectural practice, since in Lagos there only seems to exist what the author has seen or perceived, making invisible both the multiple and complex spatial dynamics of the subaltern bodies –necessary to understand the particularity of the area– and the previous work of academics, architects or urban planners interested in the spatiality of the conflict.

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