Maps are plans: re-evaluating territorial hermeneutics through Manuel de Solà-Morales’ project of description
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Salgueiro Barrio, Roi
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July 1, 2022
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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City, Territory and Architecture. 2022 Jul 01;9(1):22
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During the late 1970s, Catalan architect Manuel de Solà-Morales focuses his research on understanding territory as an architectural construct. Influenced by post-war French urban geography and, especially, by the Italian debates about the città-territorio and Henri Lefebvre’s notion of total urbanization, Solà-Morales seeks to define methods of territorial analysis and description with the purpose of understanding how architecture can contribute to articulate an urbanized territory. The crucial piece of this intellectual quest is the research ‘La forma d’un país’ (‘The Shape of a Country’), an atlas in which the production of maps is simultaneously understood as an act of territorial description and territorial design. In Solà-Morales’ terminology: maps are already ‘plans’; their conception needs to move from the ‘literal’ to the ‘literary’. The goal of this article is to interrogate this cartographic project, by asking what its value is both within Solà-Morales broader theorization of territorial production, and for a contemporary understanding of the relations between architecture and territory.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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https://doi.org/10.1186/s40410-022-00167-0
