Instituciones Evanescentes : consideraciones políticas sobre la arquitectura itinerante
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Abstract
Built architecture is generally conceived to be either ephemeral or permanent. However, there are architectures that are temporal without being ephemeral and permanent without remaining in place. Street markets, circuses and traveling theaters, portable or mobile structures, Archigram’s Ideas Circus and Instant City, Renzo Piano’s IBM Traveling Pavilion, as well as the most recent examples of traveling architectures— including the Chanel Mobile Art by Zaha Hadid and the BMW Guggenheim Lab by Atelier Bow-Wow—define a genealogy that challenges the famous Vitruvian virtues of firmitas, utilitas, and venustas (durability, convenience, and beauty).1 These structures, easily transportable and removable, open up new possibilities in understanding the relationship between architecture and land. Itinerant architectures and pop-up structures occupy public spaces without the need to follow the rules and regulations that generally apply to permanent constructions, and without the obligation to respond to the local socioeconomic and political conditions, establishing a sort of state of emergency under a friendly and festive appearance. This thesis analyzes the political implications and the possibilities of itinerant architecture—in particular those structures that take part in the configuration of public space—and the role of architects, institutions, and media in the construction of contemporary transnational territories. Itinerancy is here considered in relation to contemporary circulatory regimes associated to the global movement of people, ideas, goods, capital, and information. Through different case studies, this thesis investigates how architecture responds to, and it is articulated around, these circulatory processes and the new conditions of belonging that are their direct result. It unveils how the institutions under consideration seek for durable and profitable effects through the use of temporary mobile structures: architectures that seem to vanish with his departure and, yet, leave a legacy of permanent transformation in the social, political and built environment. RESUMEN Las arquitecturas construidas se debaten, generalmente, entre la permanencia y lo efímero. Sin embargo, hay arquitecturas que son temporales sin ser efímeras y permanentes, sin ocupar un único lugar. Generalmente asociadas con la práctica del nomadismo, las arquitecturas itinerantes definen una genealogía diferente en la que encontramos una relación fascinante entre duración y su interacción con el lugar, el tiempo y la memoria. Los mercados ambulantes, circos y teatros itinerantes, estructuras portátiles o móviles, los proyectos ideas Circus y Instant City de Archigram, las experiencias del arquitecto Renzo Piano en el UNESCO Laboratorio de Quartiere y el IBM Traveling Pavilion, así como los más recientes ejemplos de arquitecturas viajeras, entre los que se encuentran el Chanel Art Mobile de Zaha Hadid o el BMW Guggenheim Lab de los arquitectos Atelier Bow-Wow, desafían la relación que, tradicionalmente, las arquitecturas mantienen con el lugar, el tiempo y la memoria, con la firmitas de Vitruvio o la soliditas de Alberti. Estas estructuras, fácilmente transportables y desmontables, permiten ocupar temporalmente y transformar los espacios públicos de nuestras ciudades. Nunca inscritas en las estructuras sociales, políticas y económicas de los contextos en los que aterrizan, las arquitecturas itinerantes se convierten, además, en objetos extraños a su entorno que no siguen las normas generalmente aplicables a las construcciones permanentes y que llegan a establecer una suerte de estado de excepción de apariencia amable y festiva. Su estudio, no sólo abre nuevas posibilidades en la relación entre la arquitectura y lugar, la arquitectura y el tiempo, sino también evidencia las implicaciones políticas y las posibilidades de estas construcciones ambulantes, en particular aquellas que sirven y representan a instituciones culturales y económicas. Para ello, en esta Tesis se discutirá sobre los diferentes, e incluso opuestos, supuestos que se encuentran detrás del concepto de itinerancia, así como el papel de los arquitectos e instituciones en la construcción de territorios transnacionales, identidades corporativas y espacios urbanos patrocinados. A través de esta investigación, se demostrará como las instituciones, cuyo estudio es objeto de la Tesis Doctoral, buscan efectos duraderos y rentables mediante el empleo de estructuras arquitectónicas cuya materialidad se cuestiona a través de la movilidad y la temporalidad; estructuras viajeras que, si bien parecen desvanecerse con su partida, dejan como legado la transformación permanente de nuestro entorno físico, social, cultural, económico y político.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.011 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.027 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.025 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".