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- Title
El Centro Cívico para Medellín: del Plan Piloto de Wiener y Sert al Centro Administrativo La Alpujarra.
- Authors
Cuervo Calle, Juan José
- Abstract
During the decade of 1940 and 1950, some major cities understood the need to undertake urban plans, under the advice of foreign experts, carriers of the ideas of modern urbanism. This reality was justified in the absence of local technicians trained in the disciplines of architecture and urbanism. In this direction, town planners as Wiener and Sert began, at the end of the decade of 1940, an ambitious regional plan to address the growth of Medellin. In this experimental context, the planners projected the so-called Pilot Plan, around which revolved important proposals tailored to the discussions of the CIAM, including the Civic Center, fifth element designated as the Heart of the City, bigger unit than the previous four doctrinal functions of modern urbanism: live, work, cultivate the body and spirit, and circulate. In this direction, this work exposes one of the scenarios of greater importance in the Pilot Plan for Medellín: The Alpujarra Administrative Center, «Heart» of Medellín. The recognition for the need of a Civic Center for Medellin demanded the urgency of finding solutions to the collective need for public space. This was the collective opportunity to discuss and reflect these social desires through two architectural contests organized by the Colombian Society of Architects, in order to project the Civic Center: the first took place in 1960 and the second in 1968. Apart from the context in which such proposals were developed, this article shows the winning projects allowing to understand the idea of modernity expressed through the institutional route.
- Publication
Iconofacto, 2017, Vol 13, Issue 20, p207
- ISSN
1900-2785
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18566/iconofact.v13.n20.a12