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Papers by Mariana Wilderom
dearq, 2022
The article aims to reinterpret urban development through architecture and urban design strategie... more The article aims to reinterpret urban development through architecture and urban design strategies that deal with infrastructural systems to recover public space in Latin American cities. It presents an analytical framework encompassing four projects: one in São Paulo (Brazil) and three in Medellín (Colombia). Both municipalities had remarkable experiences in architecture and urbanism (A&U), reflecting advances in social, political, and economic conditions. It highlights the instruments and qualities of space intrinsically activated by A&U's strategies, considering their potential to engender significant socio-spatial transformations. The text focuses on the urban infrastructure spatial patterns as the most defining factor of the analysed urban landscapes.
V!RUS, 2022
The article aims to propose a reflection on the critical –theoretical-practical –possibilities to... more The article aims to propose a reflection on the critical –theoretical-practical –possibilities to formulate architecture and urbanism strategies that allow reacting at different levels to the impositions of destructive social logics in the contemporary world. To this end, it proposes an analytical path of some of the spatial results of the process of rationalization in modern architecture –in its Brazilian refraction –to name the conditions of a critical –counter-hegemonic –action; one that is possible in contemporary times. This reflection’s main theoretical frameworks are the questions posed to modern architecture by the Italian critic Manfredo Tafuri, and the problematization of Fredric Jameson on the theoretical impasses attributed to it. These could be partially overcome by Lefebvre's critique of the production of space and everyday life, allowing the construction of a theoretical-methodological horizon of social transformation. The present possibilities indicate that critical practice must pursue spatial, cultural, and social contents as alternatives to the progressive abstraction of life, that is, imagine counter-hegemonic procedural actions –and achievements –to face the imposition of hegemonic capitalism (Jameson)
Quodlibet eBooks, Jun 27, 2023
A pesquisa desenvolve uma análise da história do espaço educacional na cidade de São Paulo, a par... more A pesquisa desenvolve uma análise da história do espaço educacional na cidade de São Paulo, a partir de problemáticas contemporâneas que envolvem o equipamento público escolar. O objeto de estudo que mobiliza a leitura histórica é o Centro Educacional Unificado, um complexo de equipamentos educacionais, culturais e recreativos, implantados pela prefeitura de São Paulo, originalmente entre 2002-2004, nos bairros periféricos que apresentavam carência de equipamentos sociais, espaços públicos e infraestrutura urbana. O ceu foi aclamado por seus idealizadores e pela mídia especializada, como um equipamento indutor de urbanidade. Uma vez que a multiplicidade de suas funções se organiza na criação de um espaço público diferenciado, que remete à cidade formal, atendendo tanto ao público escolar quanto à comunidade local. A partir dessa interpretação, o conjunto arquitetônico resultante ofereceria serviços de qualidade e vivências do espaço urbano que contribuiriam para a expansão das persp...
Henri Lefebvre's (HL) large production about cities, urban, urban space and society could ind... more Henri Lefebvre's (HL) large production about cities, urban, urban space and society could indicate its relevance to the architecture produced after the heyday of the neoliberal cycle and its crisis in 2008. This author introduced the practical-sensitive basis in the debate between the spatial and social processes to discuss the ideological dimensions that underpin the urban and architectural intervention carried out by the rationality of the State. This paper aims to identify the relationship between HL concepts and architecture in the contemporary academic debate, in which the city and the urban are highlighted. The Systematic Literature Review method was used as well as a refining criterion that looked for the relation between the work of HL, selected in specialized indexed international journals, on the space and the city and the concerns more directly related to the architecture and urban design. Concluding, we point out that the influence of Lefebvrian work on architectural...
Future City, Oct 12, 2019
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) persists as a public health problem, cause it association with ma... more Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) persists as a public health problem, cause it association with many aspects, including infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the precarious living conditions, the multidrug resistance that affects the control of the chains transmission. Objetive: The aim of this study is identify the beliefs and attitudes about TB in health workers from a town of Bogotá. Methodology: Cross-sectional study, based on the application of an instrument to 202 health workers during the period from March to August 2010. Results: It was found that 32% of health workers consider the transmission of the disease until 2-3 weeks of starting treatment. 25% of participants reported that the disease continues to be transmitted with treatment. 48.5% of health workers answered that they were comfortable with the care of a patient with TB and 51.5% are undecided and / or would not feel right. Preliminary data showed that erroneous beliefs and attitudes persist in relation to TB, which can affect the early detection and treatment adherence.
Alexander Cuthbert published a daring anthology on architecture and urban design, completed in 20... more Alexander Cuthbert published a daring anthology on architecture and urban design, completed in 2011. The project began in 2001 resulting in three volumes: Designing Cities (2003), The Form of the Cities (2006) and Understanding Cities (2011). Unlike other anthologies on architecture, this author organized it as follows: critical selection of authors' texts from various disciplinary areas (vol. I), the approach systematization according to the defined categories (vol. II) and the discussion of the "meta-theories" that would underpin a renewed critical disciplinary perspective (vol. III). In this sense, Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) had already indicated the ideological limits of both modern urbanism and the new spatial strategies of globalization, and proposed a new science of space and city, free from the direct injunctions of the defining economic determinations of 'urban society'. This would be a task of thinking about social praxis. The aim of this research is ...
Future City, 2019
This chapter introduces some current concepts and its historical precedents and, in regard to the... more This chapter introduces some current concepts and its historical precedents and, in regard to the article, addresses the experience of large-scale urban projects (GPUs) in Argentina from the concept of just city as developed by the urban planning theorist Susan Fainstein. Although initially it may seem that the orientations of large urban projects and the references to just city are antithetical, Fainstein’s contributions expose the complexity of the issue, transcending the dichotomy between uncritical acceptance and full rejection, as well as clarifying differences between various megaprojects. Based on previous approaches on GPUs and secondary literature, the experiences of Puerto Norte (Rosario) and Puerto Madero (Buenos Aires) are approached and compared from the just city perspective. The conclusion is that, despite its distance from the public components incorporated in initiatives addressed by Fainstein in cities of the Global North, the Rosario case contemplates more aspects of equity than the case of Buenos Aires.
Future City, 2019
The final chapter of Social Urbanism in Latin America: Cases and Instruments of Planning, Land Po... more The final chapter of Social Urbanism in Latin America: Cases and Instruments of Planning, Land Policy and Financing the City Transformation with Social Inclusion presents the main lessons and challenges analyzed in the seven chapters of the book. The case studies of Medellin, Bogota, and Sao Paulo, discussed in more detail, along with other local innovative experiences of social and territorial inclusion, through land policy tools, in Latin American cities in Uruguay, Ecuador, and Argentina, show that there is a set of urban, environmental, and cultural initiatives that place social inclusion and reduction of urban inequality at the forefront of municipal governments’ agendas in this century on the most urbanized of the continents.
Future City, 2019
About Sao Paulo, the second largest city in Latin America with more than twelve million people, t... more About Sao Paulo, the second largest city in Latin America with more than twelve million people, the chapter discusses the strategy implemented by the 2013-2016 administration in the city of Sao Paulo to orient the city towards social urbanism. The city placed the land issue in the center of the formulation and implementation of its urban policy, with clear guidelines for social and environmental re-balancing through the replacement of the existing model.
Future City, 2020
The chapter introduces some current concepts and its historical precedents in regard to social ur... more The chapter introduces some current concepts and its historical precedents in regard to social urbanism, a contemporary strand of multidisciplinary studies about cities that emerge from the Latin America’s complex reality, which is the most urbanized of the continents, and other transition cities from the Global South.
Future City, 2019
The 1990s brought urban planning and management tools for justice and social transformation to lo... more The 1990s brought urban planning and management tools for justice and social transformation to local governments in Latin America. Two countries led this movement: Brazil and Colombia, and progressively other countries as Uruguay, Argentina, and Ecuador. However, two decades have passed, and cities continue to reflect the enormous inequality in the use of land, land access conditions, housing, public space, infrastructure, and public services. Cities represent prosperity and a lack of opportunities, but there is also hope.
X Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo, Barcelona-Córdoba, Junio 2018, 2018
A realidade socioespacial latino-americana impõe grandes desafios à disciplina da Arquitetura e U... more A realidade socioespacial latino-americana impõe grandes desafios à disciplina da Arquitetura e Urbanismo (A&U), demandando a renovação do pensamento sobre o processo de urbanização que, apesar de planetário, denota problemáticas particulares nessa porção do globo, na periferia do capitalismo. A sobreposição dessa condição periférica global e local – a dupla periferia – que resulta na segregação socioespacial na cidade, submetida também aos imperativos de uma ordem econômica mundial desigual, é examinada neste artigo devido ao seu potencial problematizador, que permite um amplo debate disciplinar. Essa discussão se baseia nas questões metodológicas da pesquisa de doutorado em desenvolvimento, intitulada Arquitetura para cidades da América Latina: distâncias e aproximações entre São Paulo e Medellín. Na tese o tema da periferiaé tratado como um paradigma espacial, sendo analisado por meio de noções lefebvrianas sobre a produção do espaço. O objetivo é refletir sobre os potenciais de ...
PARC Pesquisa em Arquitetura e Construção, 2018
A vasta produção de Henri Lefebvre (HL) sobre a cidade, o urbano, o espaço e a sociedade urbana, ... more A vasta produção de Henri Lefebvre (HL) sobre a cidade, o urbano, o espaço e a sociedade urbana, poderia indicar sua relevância à arquitetura produzida após o apogeu do ciclo neoliberal e a sua crise em 2008. Este autor introduziu a base prático-sensível na dialética entre os processos espacial e social para discutir as dimensões ideológicas que fundamentam a intervenção urbanística e arquitetônica levada a cabo pela racionalidade do Estado. O objetivo deste artigo é identificar a relação entre os conceitos de HL e a arquitetura no debate acadêmico contemporâneo, no qual a cidade e o urbano são destacados. Como metodologia utilizamos a Revisão Sistemática de Literatura (RSL), com critérios de filtragem que buscavam a relação entre a obra de HL, destacada em revistas especializadas internacionais indexadas, sobre o espaço e a cidade e as preocupações mais diretamente voltadas para a arquitetura e desenho urbano. Conclui-se que a influência da obra lefebvriana nos temas arquitetônicos...
Future City, 2019
Based on the elitist social representation in the restoration of historical monuments, the cultur... more Based on the elitist social representation in the restoration of historical monuments, the cultural heritage policy in Sao Paulo is scarcely linked to the preservation of urban settings and to social inclusion practices. Scarcity of resources and lack of public interest, added to a scenario of social inequality, have not favored the allocation of resources towards preservation. Considering this framework of limitations, it is possible to argue that the priority of policies related to cultural assets should lie on the protection of low-income urban settlements, associated to social housing, and within a community-based perspective.
This research develops an analysis on the history of educational spaces in São Paulo, based on co... more This research develops an analysis on the history of educational spaces in São Paulo, based on contemporary issues involving public school facilities. The case study that leads the historical approach is the Centro Educacional Unificado (ceu, Unified Educational Center) a complex of educational, cultural and recreational institutions, deployed by the city of São Paulo, originally between 2002-2004, in the low-income areas that showed a lack of social facilities, public spaces and urban infrastructure. ceus were hailed by their developers and specialized media as urbanity inductors. The multiplicity of their functions were organized by creating a distinctive public space which refered to the formal city, serving both the public and the local school community., Thus the resulting architectural ensemble would offer quality services and experiences of urban space that would contribute to the expansion of the perspective of education for culture, sports and recreation. A detailed analysis of this example led to the understanding that the ceu could be read from three points of view, which organize the historical analysis: the school was at the same time a public policy, an architectural typology and an urban intervention. Studying that analytical framework, this work sought the understanding on how the regular public schools ended up becoming this multi-proposal facility which groups a series of institutions that were traditionally distributed through the city, equalizing the provision of services to underserved populations, , however stresses the relation between the school and the city. The production of public education facilities is studied from 1935-with the development of the Department of Culture, that installed playgrounds in working class neighborhoods-to the present day, when 45 ceus are in operation in the periphery of São Paulo.
dearq, 2022
The article aims to reinterpret urban development through architecture and urban design strategie... more The article aims to reinterpret urban development through architecture and urban design strategies that deal with infrastructural systems to recover public space in Latin American cities. It presents an analytical framework encompassing four projects: one in São Paulo (Brazil) and three in Medellín (Colombia). Both municipalities had remarkable experiences in architecture and urbanism (A&U), reflecting advances in social, political, and economic conditions. It highlights the instruments and qualities of space intrinsically activated by A&U's strategies, considering their potential to engender significant socio-spatial transformations. The text focuses on the urban infrastructure spatial patterns as the most defining factor of the analysed urban landscapes.
V!RUS, 2022
The article aims to propose a reflection on the critical –theoretical-practical –possibilities to... more The article aims to propose a reflection on the critical –theoretical-practical –possibilities to formulate architecture and urbanism strategies that allow reacting at different levels to the impositions of destructive social logics in the contemporary world. To this end, it proposes an analytical path of some of the spatial results of the process of rationalization in modern architecture –in its Brazilian refraction –to name the conditions of a critical –counter-hegemonic –action; one that is possible in contemporary times. This reflection’s main theoretical frameworks are the questions posed to modern architecture by the Italian critic Manfredo Tafuri, and the problematization of Fredric Jameson on the theoretical impasses attributed to it. These could be partially overcome by Lefebvre's critique of the production of space and everyday life, allowing the construction of a theoretical-methodological horizon of social transformation. The present possibilities indicate that critical practice must pursue spatial, cultural, and social contents as alternatives to the progressive abstraction of life, that is, imagine counter-hegemonic procedural actions –and achievements –to face the imposition of hegemonic capitalism (Jameson)
Quodlibet eBooks, Jun 27, 2023
A pesquisa desenvolve uma análise da história do espaço educacional na cidade de São Paulo, a par... more A pesquisa desenvolve uma análise da história do espaço educacional na cidade de São Paulo, a partir de problemáticas contemporâneas que envolvem o equipamento público escolar. O objeto de estudo que mobiliza a leitura histórica é o Centro Educacional Unificado, um complexo de equipamentos educacionais, culturais e recreativos, implantados pela prefeitura de São Paulo, originalmente entre 2002-2004, nos bairros periféricos que apresentavam carência de equipamentos sociais, espaços públicos e infraestrutura urbana. O ceu foi aclamado por seus idealizadores e pela mídia especializada, como um equipamento indutor de urbanidade. Uma vez que a multiplicidade de suas funções se organiza na criação de um espaço público diferenciado, que remete à cidade formal, atendendo tanto ao público escolar quanto à comunidade local. A partir dessa interpretação, o conjunto arquitetônico resultante ofereceria serviços de qualidade e vivências do espaço urbano que contribuiriam para a expansão das persp...
Henri Lefebvre's (HL) large production about cities, urban, urban space and society could ind... more Henri Lefebvre's (HL) large production about cities, urban, urban space and society could indicate its relevance to the architecture produced after the heyday of the neoliberal cycle and its crisis in 2008. This author introduced the practical-sensitive basis in the debate between the spatial and social processes to discuss the ideological dimensions that underpin the urban and architectural intervention carried out by the rationality of the State. This paper aims to identify the relationship between HL concepts and architecture in the contemporary academic debate, in which the city and the urban are highlighted. The Systematic Literature Review method was used as well as a refining criterion that looked for the relation between the work of HL, selected in specialized indexed international journals, on the space and the city and the concerns more directly related to the architecture and urban design. Concluding, we point out that the influence of Lefebvrian work on architectural...
Future City, Oct 12, 2019
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) persists as a public health problem, cause it association with ma... more Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) persists as a public health problem, cause it association with many aspects, including infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the precarious living conditions, the multidrug resistance that affects the control of the chains transmission. Objetive: The aim of this study is identify the beliefs and attitudes about TB in health workers from a town of Bogotá. Methodology: Cross-sectional study, based on the application of an instrument to 202 health workers during the period from March to August 2010. Results: It was found that 32% of health workers consider the transmission of the disease until 2-3 weeks of starting treatment. 25% of participants reported that the disease continues to be transmitted with treatment. 48.5% of health workers answered that they were comfortable with the care of a patient with TB and 51.5% are undecided and / or would not feel right. Preliminary data showed that erroneous beliefs and attitudes persist in relation to TB, which can affect the early detection and treatment adherence.
Alexander Cuthbert published a daring anthology on architecture and urban design, completed in 20... more Alexander Cuthbert published a daring anthology on architecture and urban design, completed in 2011. The project began in 2001 resulting in three volumes: Designing Cities (2003), The Form of the Cities (2006) and Understanding Cities (2011). Unlike other anthologies on architecture, this author organized it as follows: critical selection of authors' texts from various disciplinary areas (vol. I), the approach systematization according to the defined categories (vol. II) and the discussion of the "meta-theories" that would underpin a renewed critical disciplinary perspective (vol. III). In this sense, Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) had already indicated the ideological limits of both modern urbanism and the new spatial strategies of globalization, and proposed a new science of space and city, free from the direct injunctions of the defining economic determinations of 'urban society'. This would be a task of thinking about social praxis. The aim of this research is ...
Future City, 2019
This chapter introduces some current concepts and its historical precedents and, in regard to the... more This chapter introduces some current concepts and its historical precedents and, in regard to the article, addresses the experience of large-scale urban projects (GPUs) in Argentina from the concept of just city as developed by the urban planning theorist Susan Fainstein. Although initially it may seem that the orientations of large urban projects and the references to just city are antithetical, Fainstein’s contributions expose the complexity of the issue, transcending the dichotomy between uncritical acceptance and full rejection, as well as clarifying differences between various megaprojects. Based on previous approaches on GPUs and secondary literature, the experiences of Puerto Norte (Rosario) and Puerto Madero (Buenos Aires) are approached and compared from the just city perspective. The conclusion is that, despite its distance from the public components incorporated in initiatives addressed by Fainstein in cities of the Global North, the Rosario case contemplates more aspects of equity than the case of Buenos Aires.
Future City, 2019
The final chapter of Social Urbanism in Latin America: Cases and Instruments of Planning, Land Po... more The final chapter of Social Urbanism in Latin America: Cases and Instruments of Planning, Land Policy and Financing the City Transformation with Social Inclusion presents the main lessons and challenges analyzed in the seven chapters of the book. The case studies of Medellin, Bogota, and Sao Paulo, discussed in more detail, along with other local innovative experiences of social and territorial inclusion, through land policy tools, in Latin American cities in Uruguay, Ecuador, and Argentina, show that there is a set of urban, environmental, and cultural initiatives that place social inclusion and reduction of urban inequality at the forefront of municipal governments’ agendas in this century on the most urbanized of the continents.
Future City, 2019
About Sao Paulo, the second largest city in Latin America with more than twelve million people, t... more About Sao Paulo, the second largest city in Latin America with more than twelve million people, the chapter discusses the strategy implemented by the 2013-2016 administration in the city of Sao Paulo to orient the city towards social urbanism. The city placed the land issue in the center of the formulation and implementation of its urban policy, with clear guidelines for social and environmental re-balancing through the replacement of the existing model.
Future City, 2020
The chapter introduces some current concepts and its historical precedents in regard to social ur... more The chapter introduces some current concepts and its historical precedents in regard to social urbanism, a contemporary strand of multidisciplinary studies about cities that emerge from the Latin America’s complex reality, which is the most urbanized of the continents, and other transition cities from the Global South.
Future City, 2019
The 1990s brought urban planning and management tools for justice and social transformation to lo... more The 1990s brought urban planning and management tools for justice and social transformation to local governments in Latin America. Two countries led this movement: Brazil and Colombia, and progressively other countries as Uruguay, Argentina, and Ecuador. However, two decades have passed, and cities continue to reflect the enormous inequality in the use of land, land access conditions, housing, public space, infrastructure, and public services. Cities represent prosperity and a lack of opportunities, but there is also hope.
X Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo, Barcelona-Córdoba, Junio 2018, 2018
A realidade socioespacial latino-americana impõe grandes desafios à disciplina da Arquitetura e U... more A realidade socioespacial latino-americana impõe grandes desafios à disciplina da Arquitetura e Urbanismo (A&U), demandando a renovação do pensamento sobre o processo de urbanização que, apesar de planetário, denota problemáticas particulares nessa porção do globo, na periferia do capitalismo. A sobreposição dessa condição periférica global e local – a dupla periferia – que resulta na segregação socioespacial na cidade, submetida também aos imperativos de uma ordem econômica mundial desigual, é examinada neste artigo devido ao seu potencial problematizador, que permite um amplo debate disciplinar. Essa discussão se baseia nas questões metodológicas da pesquisa de doutorado em desenvolvimento, intitulada Arquitetura para cidades da América Latina: distâncias e aproximações entre São Paulo e Medellín. Na tese o tema da periferiaé tratado como um paradigma espacial, sendo analisado por meio de noções lefebvrianas sobre a produção do espaço. O objetivo é refletir sobre os potenciais de ...
PARC Pesquisa em Arquitetura e Construção, 2018
A vasta produção de Henri Lefebvre (HL) sobre a cidade, o urbano, o espaço e a sociedade urbana, ... more A vasta produção de Henri Lefebvre (HL) sobre a cidade, o urbano, o espaço e a sociedade urbana, poderia indicar sua relevância à arquitetura produzida após o apogeu do ciclo neoliberal e a sua crise em 2008. Este autor introduziu a base prático-sensível na dialética entre os processos espacial e social para discutir as dimensões ideológicas que fundamentam a intervenção urbanística e arquitetônica levada a cabo pela racionalidade do Estado. O objetivo deste artigo é identificar a relação entre os conceitos de HL e a arquitetura no debate acadêmico contemporâneo, no qual a cidade e o urbano são destacados. Como metodologia utilizamos a Revisão Sistemática de Literatura (RSL), com critérios de filtragem que buscavam a relação entre a obra de HL, destacada em revistas especializadas internacionais indexadas, sobre o espaço e a cidade e as preocupações mais diretamente voltadas para a arquitetura e desenho urbano. Conclui-se que a influência da obra lefebvriana nos temas arquitetônicos...
Future City, 2019
Based on the elitist social representation in the restoration of historical monuments, the cultur... more Based on the elitist social representation in the restoration of historical monuments, the cultural heritage policy in Sao Paulo is scarcely linked to the preservation of urban settings and to social inclusion practices. Scarcity of resources and lack of public interest, added to a scenario of social inequality, have not favored the allocation of resources towards preservation. Considering this framework of limitations, it is possible to argue that the priority of policies related to cultural assets should lie on the protection of low-income urban settlements, associated to social housing, and within a community-based perspective.
This research develops an analysis on the history of educational spaces in São Paulo, based on co... more This research develops an analysis on the history of educational spaces in São Paulo, based on contemporary issues involving public school facilities. The case study that leads the historical approach is the Centro Educacional Unificado (ceu, Unified Educational Center) a complex of educational, cultural and recreational institutions, deployed by the city of São Paulo, originally between 2002-2004, in the low-income areas that showed a lack of social facilities, public spaces and urban infrastructure. ceus were hailed by their developers and specialized media as urbanity inductors. The multiplicity of their functions were organized by creating a distinctive public space which refered to the formal city, serving both the public and the local school community., Thus the resulting architectural ensemble would offer quality services and experiences of urban space that would contribute to the expansion of the perspective of education for culture, sports and recreation. A detailed analysis of this example led to the understanding that the ceu could be read from three points of view, which organize the historical analysis: the school was at the same time a public policy, an architectural typology and an urban intervention. Studying that analytical framework, this work sought the understanding on how the regular public schools ended up becoming this multi-proposal facility which groups a series of institutions that were traditionally distributed through the city, equalizing the provision of services to underserved populations, , however stresses the relation between the school and the city. The production of public education facilities is studied from 1935-with the development of the Department of Culture, that installed playgrounds in working class neighborhoods-to the present day, when 45 ceus are in operation in the periphery of São Paulo.
III Criticall Proceedings, 2018
Alexander Cuthbert published a daring anthology on architecture and urban design, completed in 20... more Alexander Cuthbert published a daring anthology on architecture and urban design, completed in 2011. The project began in 2001 resulting in three volumes: Designing Cities (2003), The Form of the Cities (2006) and Understanding Cities (2011). Unlike other anthologies on architecture, this author organized it as follows: critical selection of authors' texts from various disciplinary areas (vol. I), the approach systematization according to the defined categories (vol. II) and the discussion of the "meta-theories" that would underpin a renewed critical disciplinary perspective (vol. III). The categories of analysis include the disciplinary tradition and emerging In this sense, Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) had already indicated the ideological limits of both modern urbanism and the new spatial strategies of globalization, and proposed a new science of space and city, free from the direct injunctions of the defining economic determinations of 'urban society'. This would be a task of thinking about social praxis. The aim of this research is to answer: Does this theoretical-empirical approach respond to the Lefebvrian requirement of a critical-theoretical reflection that would be the basis of a new space discipline? Does Alexander Cuthbert overcome the dichotomy between urbanism and architecture towards a disciplinary methodology of spatial intervention? Therefore, this study discusses the categories of Alexander Cuthbert according to Lefebvre's critical propositions and his "unitary urbanism". In this sense, we believe that instead of proposing operational categories, Cuthbert proposes heterologies – or preconditions – that could configure a new critical thinking. Its objective would be a theoretical unit that surpassed the urbanism like "fragmentary sciences", restricted to the functional and economic dimensions of the production of the space. Cuthbert's anthology showed the most appropriate approach to the new themes and challenges, considering the multiplicity of theoretical interfaces that converge in the architectural practice. Panel presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av43DmhHsFs