2013.-Building the New Barcelona. The importance of the " survey " on common architecture in the Cerda's Project (original) (raw)

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Ildefonso Cerdà's work has been undervalued in the context of the historiography on urbanism. However his work is becoming recognized as essential in the deployment of this field of social and economic practice and of research now called urbanism. In this paper we will not address nor the aspects of "planning" inherent to the Cerdà's project nor the derived aspects of his thinking on the discipline of "urbanization". Instead, we focus our attention on some of the methodological procedures of Cerdà less widespread but that are essential for development, not only of his Reform and Expansion Project for Barcelona, but also for the articulation of his theory. In the context of this conference we will focus on the "intervia", in the building and we will try to study, to what extent, Cerdà includes the popular construction. For Cerdà 1 , the object of " urbanization " 2 , a new scientific field of study can be summarized in To give an idea of the development in the field of science, we say that [i] its constituent elements are shelters (intervia), [ii] its object is reciprocity of services and [iii] its means, the common pathways (vías), ie common use " (Cerdà, 1867:vol I, 44-45). " What matters now is to consign the characteristic forms of the house at the time we are speaking, because it is very shocking at first sight, we are interested to know, that what we find in some urban construction and in certain circumstances, is incompatible with civilization, culture and mores of our times,. (Cerdà, 1867: vol I,libro IV, 699)