Temas de Arquitectura 2

CIUDAD POST-CONFLICTO

The course provides the students with tools to apply a historical approach in the analysis and reconstruction of the memory of the city and the territory, the urban expressions of political violence and post-conflict architecture, at a local and global level. Through archival research and field work, different urban scenarios of political violence will be analyzed, using the cartographic and architectural representation of the urban context and selected infrastructures as instruments. Taking as a case study the affected places in Lima, with their various implications, problems and potentials; It seeks to link the memory of the conflict in the city with its current urban context, for a more resilient and conciliatory future.

In this sense, the course poses, as a starting point, the following questions: What consequences did the internal war have on the territory and infrastructure of the city of Lima? What processes of urban and architectural transformation have been carried out in the spaces affected by political violence from the period 1980-2000 until today? How do these spatial transformations in the city express our social relations today?

The learning units are: 1. Territorial memory and expressions of political violence in urban contexts; 2. Post-conflict cities at a local and global level. Urban and political transformations; 3. Post-conflict architecture. Spatial and social transformations; 4. Rethinking places of memory in the city.