El delirio de Lagos no es el de Nueva York: Rem Koolhaas y el protagonismo del autor-arquitecto en territorios conflictivos
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 super...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Navarra |
| Repositorio: | Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/62492 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10171/62492 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Koolhaas Lagos informalidad conflicto fuerzas |
| Sumario: | 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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