TY  - SER
AU  - Corda,Simone
AU  - Jefferson,Caples
AU  - Larsen,Henning
AU  - Mangado,Francisco
ED  - Donaire Arquitectos
ED  - Estudio Barozzi Veiga
ED  - SAM Architekten un Partner AG
ED  - Selgascano
ED  - TEN Arquitectos
ED  - Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects
TI  - Cultural and Public
KW  - ARQUITECTURA DEL PAISAJE
KW  - ARQUITECTURA MODERNA - SIGLO XXI
KW  - AUDITORIOS - DISEÑO Y CONSTRUCCION - ESPAÑA
KW  - CENTROS CULTURALES - DISEÑO Y CONSTRUCCION
KW  - DISEÑO ARQUITECTONICO
KW  - Espacio público
KW  - MUSEOS - DISEÑO Y CONSTRUCCION - MEXICO
KW  - PALACIO DE CONGRESOS - ESPAÑA
KW  - SALAS DE CONCIERTOS - ARQUITECTURA - ISLANDIA
KW  - TEATROS - DISEÑO Y CONSTRUCCION
N1  - Arquitectura
N2  - Cultural facilities have emerged as one of the key elements for the contemporary public space. How this has changed over the last two decades and why the most vital parts for the city nowadays are the cultural venues are two main subjects of discussion. The analysis of eleven recent community buildings through the concepts of context, identity and relationship with the surroundings suggests that two parallel trends are ongoing. On one hand there is a diversity of methods to look at the connection between a building and a site, with approaches changing according to program, place, a common sensibility in the design can be identified: the focus on the personal experience of the user. It can be argued that this subjectivity has effects not only within the area covered by the project, but also in the winder field of the city image definition. Finally, the idea that arises is that a site becomes a place through the sum of these partially overlapping monadic memories
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