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Call for papers Revista de Arquitectura N.º 47. 

Ways of looking at architectural sustainability + FREE THEME

 

Deadline for receipt of articles:  September 10, 2024

Guidelines for authors: https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/about/submissions

Earthquakes: a history of fragments

Authors

  • Mauricio Baros T. Arquitecto, Universidad de Chile (1986). Magíster en Arquitectura Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (1993). Actualmente es docente de las universidades Católica, de Chile y Central

Abstract

In addition to all their tragic consequences, earthquakes are a moment of detention, a pause that allows an opening to different symbolic and emotional domains, etc. That leave the weaknessof the legal, political and urban systems among others exposed. In The city basic supports of maintainance are reinstated and tested in these crucial moments.

Keywords:

earthquakes, history of architecture, urban helplessness, politic orphanage, symbolic dimension