The multiple figures of an unstable rapport: architecture and the modern city

Abstract

The rapport between architecture and the modern city has always been unstable because it is a historiographical field that challenges the most conventional orientations presented by the apparent disciplinary fragments of the issue. In this field, both approaches can coexist from the buildings' particularity or the city's generality, or even the primacies of the rational order of planning over the morphological operation or the capacity of the architectural work to accommodate complex urban phenomena. The historical interpretation of this broad field of relationships can permanently shed some relevant knowledge, which brings to the fore old debates that feed contemporary reflection.