Space as Interpretative Criterion for Modern Living: Cruz House in Santiago de Chile
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Cruz house, space, domesticity, modern architecture, designAbstract
The Cruz house was the result of a design process carried out between 1956 and 1961 and became the first work built by the Institute of Architecture of the Catholic University of Valparaíso. Fabio Cruz, the architect commissioned by his father, recounted in a letter-memoir the building and creative process of the house. The extraordinary condition that the house manifested as an architectural fact and its historiographical scope in relation to the discussion of disciplinary thought and modernity make it a suggestive matter to discuss and revise. The house was also the consequence of a period of disciplinary renewal that the Institute began in 1952, and which saw in the notion of space the key to a new modern architecture.
The aim of the work is to analyze the work from its spatial conception, considering that this was the starting point, above the programmatic, formal and constructive aspects. Its study sheds new light on the ideas of domesticity and relationship with the urban environment that circulated in the field of modern Chilean architectural culture at the end of the 1950s.
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