Title: Capitalizing upon Authenticity. Artists and real Estate Projects in Urban Renewal
Author: Elke Schlack. Professor and researcher, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile. / Neil Turnbull. Professor and researcher, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile.
Abstract: To what extent can private urban renewal enterprises foster a growth in cultural resources and collective patrimony? Two cases in Santiago set the stage for a discussion about the nature of successive deterioration and growth cycles in the city.
Keywords: urbanism – Chile, urban renewal, gentrification, Bellavista, Barrio Italia
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As time passed, it became clear that this fissure was rather a quickly accelerating crack, capable of severely affecting stock markets, banks and international markets. The book project Arquitectura y negocios needed to be redeveloped in light of the evolution of the new crisis and its authors1 decided to freeze the initiative until further notice.
Today it is possible to see how the original crisis has expanded its reach, manifesting in different ways: from the occupations in Madrid’s La Puerta del Sol to Zuccotti Park in New York, from protests in Santiago to revolutions in Athens, the financial crisis and the social movements it has generated have had an effect which should be important to architects and urban designers: it has recovered the city, once again, as history’s stage and revived many considerations regarding public spaces: their use and administration, the existence of physical and mental spaces as hosts for controversy and disagreement.
ARQ79 proposes a vision of the city as a place to accumulate, experience tensions, interact and, above all, as a place for opportunity. We should not forget that what we consider today to be the city at one time was an intersection between two roads, which later became a marketplace. Within this context, Luis Izquierdo’s text –recovered and revised given the perspective of time, since this first project of Montserrat Palmer, Arquitectura y negocios– establishes an exact perspective from which one can calibrate the role of architects in the production and administration of resources. Meanwhile, Elke Schlack and Neil Turnbull’s study analyzes a radical case in which urban land evolves into capital. The projects presented in this last edition for 2011, present a variety of ways in which architecture takes advantage of the opportunities that the urban environment offers: from recycling an obsolete structure in order to meet new necessities in Santiago to the inventive use of a series of discarded sites in São Paulo, this edition bets on the future that follows up a time of such uncertainty and change.
Printed in December 2011
Ediciones ARQ
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Architecture
Santiago, Chile
City business / Patricio Mardones
Occupy Wall Street / Francisca Benítez
Arquitectura y negocio / Luis Izquierdo
Luxury / Martin Parr
Edificio Aimberê, São Paulo, Brasil / Andrade Morettin Arquitetos
Edificio Simpatia, São Paulo, Brasil / GrupoSP
Edificio W305, São Paulo, Brasil / Isay Weinfeld
Casa Óptima, Santiago, Chile / blp Arquitectos
Hinterland, Colonia, Alemania / FAR Frohn & Rojas
Condominio El Nocedal, Santiago, Chile / Swinburn + Pedraza
Edificio Once, Buenos Aires, Argentina / Adamo-Faiden