The logics of architectural design and construction are in continuous adaptation to the context in which they operate. Their systems of methods and principles are expanded to face challenges such as climate change, technological disruptions, economic and geopolitical collapses, and demographic movements, among other major global changes.
Therefore, in 2019 edition of Arena Talks we reviewed the most significant phenomena affecting our society, in order to use them as a way of rethinking and presenting other spatial, functional, professional, social and cultural logics that are geared towards an expanded conception of architecture.
Curator: Ricardo Devesa D Arch, Chief Editor of Actar and urbanNext and lecturer at the IAAC.
Functional logics
Faced with the total urbanisation of the planet, with an obsolete legacy of the built park and faced with the constant reformulation of the activities that buildings house; how are buildings able to adapt, be resilient, sensitive and receptive to changes in use?
Photo: Mexico City | ©Jordi Bernadó
Professional logics
How will the construction of architecture be affected when disruptive and innovative technologies, such as robotics and Artificial Intelligence are used in the industry? How does architecture and its construction take advantage of increasingly advanced and high-performance materials?
Photo: Mexico City @Jordi Bernado
Social logics
Faced with unstoppable migratory movements, the increase in the price of the floor and the impoverishment of society; what proposals are being implemented to accommodate affordable living environments without discrimination? How is architecture responding to such social changes?
Foto: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lagos | ©Jordi Bernado.
Cultural logics
Faced with obsolete and inappropriate world views of global challenges, what cultural narratives, theoretical proposals and pedagogical actions is the discipline developing? How are the new narratives being created and how are they disseminated?
Foto: Jimmy Wales, London | ©Jordi Bernadó
