Some Remarks on Daily Life as a Concept, Context, and Content for New Quality Standard in Architectural Design and Urbanism

• Authors: Eva M. Alvarez Isidro , Carlos J. Gómez Alfonso

Abstracts

EN

In this article, we point out the need to base the process of designing buildings and architectural and urban spaces on criteria that take into account the gender perspective. As a conceptual framework for developing such standards serves the methodology proposed by Bernard Tschumi,1 referring to “theory” as a “practice” and the concept of care and corresponding values derived from feminist ethics of care. In his text “Event-Cities 3” (Tschumi, 2005), Tschumi claims that “theory is a practice of concepts.” In the present text, this is particularly understood as a need and way to redefine/re-construct the content...

Keywords

EN

Daily life; theory; practice; quality standards; architecture; Bernard Tschumi

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Loci Communes. International Journal of Studies on Spaces in Arts and Humanities, Anthropology and Architecture
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-17

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Eva M. Alvarez Isidro

• Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)

• https://orcid.org/0000000254731269

author

Carlos J. Gómez Alfonso

• Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)

• https://orcid.org/0000000240990788

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Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/LC.2021.01.07

Biblioteka Nauki

2191664