El proyecto moderno en edificios históricos: adaptando estructuras existentes. El caso Latinoamericano

Abstract

Although the subject of conservation and intervention on preexisting objects or buildings with historical or patrimonial characteristics had a great peak since the 19th century, it is during the 20th century that they took greater relevance, since many of the events that occurred at this time, especially within the European scope, allowed the emergence of several currents, figures, theories, organisms, and regulations, which, based on a number of practices and actions, substantiated the recovery of objects from the past, however, until this day, these issues continue to be debated and analyzed constantly.

On the other hand, the Modern Movement, an architectonic mainstream that would arise in the first decades of the 20th century, can be considered as one of the few groups devoted to analyze and discuss, changes and events that emerged after the industrial revolution, and which had major repercussions on society in general, and especially on architecture and urbanism. From another point of view, the influence that Latin America had on modern architecture an urbanism cannot go unnoticed, since the integration of autochthonous elements from the region promulgated the emergence of a new judgment.

Thus, the present research project seeks to identify bases and concepts about the intervention and conservation of pre-existences, which, through a catalogue and analysis of projects, will allow to find criteria or basic principles, as a link between modern architecture and historic or patrimonial buildings within the Latin American medium.