PAPER HISTORY Fernanda Lima (original) (raw)

Keywords Idea of Structure (organization between program + use); Planning process; Breaking down of " barriers " (barriers of building + users); Reality the surroundings (culture, history of people+place); Idea of urban form (city center or nucleus); Public sphere; Regionalism; Urban Form; Participatory Architecture; " It doesn't matter how it looks without people. What Count is what the people look like in it "-DeCarlòs ILAUD (International Laboratory of Architecture + Urban Design) meetings. Giancarlo in his manifesto encouraged a changed in the way architecture is practiced. He proposed Abolishment of " barriers " between buildings and users asking these two things be part of the same process. Giancarlo reforces that architecture is not about the aesthetic of design or it is period of history. His abstract concern is what he refers to as a reach for meaning in architecture for all groups of people on their cultural level and background history. According to Giancarlo " taking into account to the context " occurs with own personal background, your view of society + your hopes and disappointments. The city should create in our minds layers of meaning , varied solutions to spacial problems, treating architecture as an organizational activity. All places should be thinking and designed for someone who are concerned with the people that occupy these places. In cases like this the used ideas justifies the form with the program. The architectural job is to find how it is works.