Reapproaching Old Buildings within the City

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  • Carlos Fortuna Centre For Social Studies, Faculty of Economics, University of coimbra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8681_9_5

Abstract

Suddenly for some reason I thought of Brasilia. The city of Brasilia was inaugurated in 1960. It was a perfect multidisciplinary exercise of harmonization between the urban planner (Lúcio Costa), the architect Óscar Niemeyer), and the landscape artist-architect (Roberto Burle Marx). Moreover, Brasilia was a typical construction of a city by the conquest of the open space made of sheer optimism, the triumph of talent over doubt and of the audacity over pessimism (Gorelik, 2005).

This reference to Brasilia serves as a sort of epigraph with which I will unravel some of my loose topics about the role of old buildings in reapproaching the contemporary city. I have never addressed specifically a journal for architects, city planners, or urban designers. On the contrary, I am far more used to deal with urban issues for groups of social scientists, sociologists, like myself, historians, anthropologists, geographers, and so forth. Here I am anyway, trying to address the issue of buildings and their possible reuses upon an interdisciplinary view, counting on your benevolence.

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Author Biography

Carlos Fortuna, Centre For Social Studies, Faculty of Economics, University of coimbra

Ph.D. (Sociology - State University of New York - Binghamton - 1989). Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Economics (University of Coimbra). Senior Researcher at the Center for Social Studies. Scientific Coordinator of the Doctoral Programmes in "Sociology" and "Sociology: Cities and Urban Cultures" (University of Coimbra). Areas of interest: Urban cultures; Tourism, heritage and memory; Identities and city images; Senses and the city. Author of various books. His most recent publication is "Simmel: A Estética e a Cidade" (Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade,2010)(Org.); Diálogos Urbanos (Coimbra, Almedina, 2013) (Ed.) and Cultura, Formação e Cidadania (Lisboa, GEPAC; 2015) (Various autors).

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Published

2018-12-26

Issue

No. 9 (2018): Reuse of Modernist Buildings: pedagogy and profession

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RMB Methodological Papers

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