THE RECONNECTION OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE PERENNIALITY OF BUILDINGS: GEOMETRY, MATERIALITY AND EMPTINESS IN DEBATE

Abstract

From the deepening of the production of a group of contemporary architects, it was realized that the meditations of "complex thinking" maintain a direct and indirect link with the results of their projects. With approaches that are dispersed across borders, in a rich process that crosses and/or exceeds the limits of the discipline of architecture, in constant friction with the landscape and environment in special circumstances, Alejandro Aravena, Arquitetos Associados, Rafael Moneo and Álvaro Siza will produce indivisible and hyper-intertwined works with their contexts. From this understanding, it could be noted that the theoretical framework of "complex thinking" may have collaborated, organically and unconsciously, to the establishment of a modus operandi in the production of these contemporary architects. To validate or confirm this hypothesis, this text was based on a bibliographic review on the theme of "complex thinking", the "reconnection of knowledge" that it defends and on the "complex artifacts" produced in this critical intersection between disciplines. Technical visits and photographic essays were also carried out that allowed us to live in situ and confirm some of the intentions described by some of these architects in their descriptive memorials.  This research tries to verify if buildings with flexible programs in peripheral landscapes with unfavorable topographies and inspirations in procedures that tension the intra/extra/supra disciplinary and the local/global, really favor, stimulate or legitimize the production of architectural works with a transdisciplinary character.