Arquitecturas donde habita el arte. "Continente y contenidos en la ciudad contemporánea. Símbolos y escala"

Abstract

Globalization, defined as the main engine of urban transformation in the last 20 years, modifies the ways of living, especially modifying the scale of values ​​with which our habitats are evaluated or qualified. Understanding for now the habitat as a generic place without scale. Architecture as a cultural product in some of its manifestations has the duty to approach the work of art, but it cannot in any way fail to fulfill the primary function that it denotes and connotes, which is to transform space into place, with meaning, meaning and memory (Marc Augé 1997). As a cultural production it can be interpreted, read, as a polysemic object, full of meaning. Carrying implicitly a large number of meanings that broadens its horizon as the architectural production is inserted in a global context rather than a local one, but running the risk of losing the communicative capacity with its immediate surroundings by not jointly building the interpretative frameworks1 to be read, interpreted by different types of users. Architecture connotes an ideology of inhabiting, therefore it is offered at the same moment that it persuades, to an interpretive reading capable of generating an enrichment, formative and informative. (Umberto Eco, 2004) 2. Now we talk about particular architectural products, museums, exhibition spaces, art galleries, parks ... spaces where art and culture inhabit.