Escribir París: aspectos del deambular urbano en Balzac, Baudelaire y Zola

The subject of the present contribution is the study of the different aspects of urban ambulation and the character of flâneur in XIXth Paris, through three moments (1830, 1850, 1870) and three key writers (Balzac, Baudelaire, Zola).

Habitar, bordar, coser. Citas del teatro de Federico García Lorca

When Bernarda Alba attributes “Needle and thread for women, whip and mule for the men”, she describes a spacial distinction, interior/exterior, and a distinction of gender that can be followed throughout Lorca’s plays. Quotes from Mariana Pineda, Blood Wedding, Yerma, Doña Rosita the Spinster, The House of Bernarda Alba, and The Public disclose the variations on the above rule in what refers to embroidering and sewing.

Montaigne, Warburg y Roussel. Tres lugares fuera de lugar

Michel de Montaigne’s cylindrical lair in his Bordeaux tower, Aby Warburg’s elliptical library in Hamburg and Raymond Roussel’s mobile home are considered here “places out of place” because they are examples of architecture built with words. The Essays, the Mnemosyne Atlas or Locus Solus, are places outside of their natural place because they are composed literary works that take into account the place where they were written. These are tree disparate writers who, in their own way, exercised architecture, and showed that literature and architecture could cohabit, share the same room, be in the same casa de citas.

Ruinas, círculos, construcciones

This article is organized around three groups of ‘citations’ from architectural forms, texts, images, which generate three options of imagination, representation and reading of space: ruins, circular constructions, and rhetoric (in particular figures of repetition). I discuss the story of Borges “Las ruinas circulares” and examples from Iain Sinclair, London orbital (2002), Gianni Biondillo and Michele Monina, Tangenziali. Due viandanti ai bordi della città (2010), and Nicolò Bassetti, Sapo Matteucci, Sacro romano GRA (2013). The circularity generates a repetitive and disparate look allowing the observation of a complementary rhythm of destruction and construction characteristic of progress in the world.

Arquitectura y Poesía

This article presents some considerations about the specific way in which poetry has interacted with architecture in its desire to create meaning. The architect’s imagination fall far from any calculation of structures and risk assessment. But no matter how modest the point of departure, the consequences are ambitious because poetic reflections on architecture inevitably lead to a complicated terrain: the questioning of identity, that is, the inevitable tension between a wish in empty space and a need for formalization.

Imaginarios de la casa en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea

This paper explores the representation of the house in the Latin American Contemporary Literature. The article identifies the importance – cultural, political and economic – of this space in the social and cultural imaginary of the 20-21st century. It examines what are the functions, forms and meanings of the house within the more important books in Latin America, from a triple approach: Hermeneutics (the house like place of Memory), Materialist (the house like ideological Object) and from a Gender perspective (the house like representation of Women).