Library of Rassegna iberistica

Series | Library of Rassegna iberistica
Edited book | Meeting Houses
Chapter | Ruinas, círculos, construcciones

Ruinas, círculos, construcciones

Abstract

This article is organized around three groups of ‘citations’ from architectural forms, texts, images, which generate three options of imagination, representation and reading of space: ruins, circular constructions, and rhetoric (in particular figures of repetition). I discuss the story of Borges “Las ruinas circulares” and examples from Iain Sinclair, London orbital (2002), Gianni Biondillo and Michele Monina, Tangenziali. Due viandanti ai bordi della città (2010), and Nicolò Bassetti, Sapo Matteucci, Sacro romano GRA (2013). The circularity generates a repetitive and disparate look allowing the observation of a complementary rhythm of destruction and construction characteristic of progress in the world.


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Submitted: July 23, 2018 | Published Oct. 19, 2018 | Language: es

Keywords RhetoricRuinsEveryday lifeJorge Luis BorgesCircles


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