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2017 URBAN EMPATHIES: The semiotic reading of space and the construction of urban meaning
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2017 URBAN EMPATHIES: The semiotic reading of space and the construction of urban meaning
Understanding how symbolic relationships are established in and with the urban landscape, how the city is read and empathies and apathy are established, which are expressed in semiotic geographies, imaginary and symbolic urban stories, is the objective of this research; and to achieve this, three dimensions that the city proposes were established, the spatial or topological, the objectual or plastic and the social; all of them symbolic, they are involved and determine reciprocally, in a process of construction of social identities of the inhabitants with their spaces, and from these, with themselves, thus the space is understood as a mediator of social ties that consolidate the landscape and the urban social reality.
2020 URBAN MEMORY IN CINEMATOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION - Bogota 20th and 21st centuries
Urban memory in cinematographic representation is a conjunction of the particular interests of authors, cinematography and semiotic studies of the urban landscape; uses architecture as an amalgam that defines the main interest of the research. This book focuses on the symbolic analysis of nine filmographic pieces shot and inspired by the city of Bogotá, from which the authors develop the main concepts for the semiotic analysis of both cultural codes, aesthetic languages and urban events. , thus finding a unique analysis methodology of cinematographic expression. These innovative concepts and methodologies generated interesting results that represent the openness to new ways of theorizing architecture and the city.
2012 INTANGIBLE. Public Space and urban event. Ed. Universidad de La Salle ISBN 978-958-8572-40-6
By inhabiting, we build the invisible dimensions of our reality. Like someone who reads, the event interprets the space, stimulating the imagination of its inhabitants. Space and event merge to generate places, mutual image and story; With time and persistence, urban myths, physical and symbolic structures emerge from this relationship. What the poem, contain a very high communicative quality. It is when we recognize that some of our events are heritage of the city because the myth releases the poetics contained in the vitality of the urban.
INTANGIBLE establishes that the reality of the urban event has three dimensions: the descriptive, the related and the meditated. These three approaches allow us to understand the multiple nature of the urban event. In the first case, the descriptive refers to the physical quality of the forms of social appropriation of urban space or as it is named in the book "urban event", In the second case, what is related refers to its symbolic quality and how the urban event constructs image and place for the urban. And in the third case it is established how with this symbolic and physical structure that establishes the urban event in communion with space, generates urban ritualities and his mythical dimension.
These three approaches make up PART ONE of INTANGIBLE in three chapters of theoretical structuring.
The second part of INTANGIBLE studies two cases in the city of Bogotá: Veinte de Julio and Terraza Pasteur. Each of the structured concepts in the first part It is applied in the observation of the two cases in the city of Bogotá. In this way we can build a deep knowledge of the quality of these forms of appropriation of urban space and establishes its ritual and mythical value.
INTANGIBLE is a proposal for the study of the forms of social appropriation of the urban space or urban event, which the individual and collective inhabitant builds with their customs of use of it, allowing us to diagnose and assess in a more objective way its cultural and patrimonial wealth. This knowledge and Valuation is essential when establishing urban development plans, tourism, education, etc., in urban regions containing urban heritage rituals for the city.
2002 PRESENT. Habitability of the architectural space. Pilot university of colombia. ISBN 958-96263-2-7
With this work, the author intends to establish the specific relationships between the variables and the evaluations that man develops from his childhood with his temporal and experiential space. It offers a conceptual structure from which the reflection on the architectural is based on the qualities of the space and the personal relationship with it. In this sense, architecture is spatiality, space is the home of the human being and the community, on which the transcendence of the built and the human is built, always pursuing the nexus with the divine
