Bibliographic citations
Rodríguez, L., (2017). Arquitectura y sociedad en Lima postraumática : mecanismos del miedo, el olvido y el recuerdo 2000-2014 [Tesis, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14076/14304
Rodríguez, L., Arquitectura y sociedad en Lima postraumática : mecanismos del miedo, el olvido y el recuerdo 2000-2014 [Tesis]. : Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería; 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14076/14304
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title = "Arquitectura y sociedad en Lima postraumática : mecanismos del miedo, el olvido y el recuerdo 2000-2014",
author = "Rodríguez Rivero, Luis Elías",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería",
year = "2017"
}
This is a study that, based on the conclusions drawn by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR), explores the role of architecture in achieving national reconciliation, that is, the possibility of Peru finding cohesion in those aspects that allow it to consider itself as a nation in the middle of its diversity. The period of political violence experienced between 1980 and 2000 is simultaneously understood as an attempt to found a new state and at the same time as the repetition of the foundational act of violence that the independence did not manage to constitute. This period is traumatic to the extent that it generated fears, hatred, distrust, forgetfulness and memories deformed by the feeling of physical and emotional insecurity. The subsequent period, which began in 2000 with the return of democracy, is characterized by a polarized society and widespread distrust. It complies with the characteristics of post-traumatic stress states that constantly revive the violence experienced while reviving the ancestral traumas produced from the Spanish conquest onwards. The architecture that is analyzed therefore refers to those programs linked to the internal armed conflict as well as those that relate to the idea of nation and history as one of their imaginary supports through time, doing so through the analysis of three categories: memory, forgetfulness and fear. Although forgetting and remembering are the main components of memory, this work treats them separately for a deeper and more thorough understanding and analysis. The memory is approached from its imaginary dimension and this is a study that, based on the conclusions drawn by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR), explores the role of architecture in achieving national reconciliation, that is, the possibility of Peru finding cohesion in those aspects that allow it to consider itself as a nation in the middle of its diversity. The period of political violence experienced between 1980 and 2000 is simultaneously understood as an attempt to found a new state and at the same time as the repetition of the foundational act of violence that the independence did not manage to constitute. This period is traumatic to the extent that it generated fears, hatred, distrust, forgetfulness and memories deformed by the feeling of physical and emotional insecurity. The subsequent period, which began in 2000 with the return of democracy, is characterized by a polarized society and widespread distrust. It complies with the characteristics of post-traumatic stress states that constantly revive the violence experienced while reviving the ancestral traumas produced from the Spanish conquest onwards. The architecture that is analyzed therefore refers to those programs linked to the internal armed conflict as well as those that relate to the idea of nation and history as one of their imaginary supports through time, doing so through the analysis of three categories: memory, forgetfulness and fear. Although forgetting and remembering are the main components of memory, this work treats them separately for a deeper and more thorough understanding and analysis. The memory is approached from its imaginary dimension and pertaining to subjectivity, the examples that are analyzed demonstrate its arbitrary handling, the manipulation to which it is subject and its belonging to a larger or smaller social group. The review of the final proposals of the contest of the Place of Memory allows us to analyze the way in which subjectivity operates on the memory when there are cognitive gaps in the reality. The architecture thus proposed is riddled with all the prejudices and fantasmatic constructions that come from the multiple traumatic moments that the country went through from the conquest to the internal armed conflict. The imaginary, the symbolic and the real are the key conceptual tools for a critical analysis of the thought, the tools and the architectural projects. The analysis of the oblivion as a strategy in the construction of public space and national museums, allows to evidence roles rarely mentioned and addressed by architecture. If the city is understood as writing, in the case of Lima it is a writing with erasures and amendments of those moments of the past that you prefer to forget because of the pain they cause, but also because remembering them implies a harsh interpellation of the citizen action of the architects. The last topic that the thesis deals with is that of fear, using the phenomenon of the beach community Asia. Assuming it as the nomos of the Peruvian modernity reveals its sinister character reflecting the period of violence and its analysis highlights the idiosyncrasy which represents one of the most important spaces of the aspirations of Lima’s society and especially of its architects.
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