Os limites da realidade: a prática contemporânea na América Latina a partir do prêmio Rogelio Salmona

Abstract

This research started from the interest in understanding the production of contemporary architecture in Latin America. Based on authors such as Ghirardo (2002), Segre (2005), Hernández (2010), Montaner (2014; 2017) and Lara (2012; 2021) in addition to a center-periphery discussion. Were also considered topics debated at events such as the Forum of Young Latin American Architects, Alejandro Aravena’s Pritzker award, and the Latin American Architecture Prize Rogelio Salmona. Starting from the assumption that “studying Latin America in all its contradictions and complexities is a fundamental task for understanding ourselves” (LARA, 2021, p. 9) and understanding the existing tension in the representation of architecture from its context, the research took basis of the center and periphery relationship within the Latin American territory as a potential for our own knowledge. Thus, this work aims to discuss the center-periphery association within the panorama of contemporary architecture in Latin America, based on the projects that make up the three editions of the Latin American Architecture Prize Rogelio Salmona. This award was chosen as the object of empirical study for offering a set with typological variation, already submitted to a qualified judging commission and for highlighting proposals that, in addition to helping to build more democratic cities, also considered the factor of adaptation to the place as relevant . Finally, the projects were analyzed based on questions related to place, use, scale and materiality, as analytical categories built based on recurrent themes about contemporary architecture in Latin America, providing a dialogue between these objects, in the centers and periphery.