ÎN AFARA CONTEXTULUI: „TRĂDAREA IMAGINILOR”
OUT OF THE CONTEXT: „THE TREACHERY OF IMAGES”

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, architecture does no longer emerge from aparticular place, the image of an architecture of place(and time) being gradually removed. Within the contextof (architectural) globalization where borders establishedby cultures and geopolitics are being removed,distinctive elements are needed to add value and characterto one zone or another, thus helping the preservationof its identity.The contemporary city, seen as a historical layered urbantissue with a certain structure and continuity, seemsto evaporate under the pressure of modern architectureattachment towards objects (production); the new city,in its present form of evolution becomes nothing morethan a gathering of dispersed individualistic objects.Maybe it is the time when architecture should (re)learnto be subordinated to the town’s history, and that everynew intervention should call against the starchitecture,seen as a gift to advertising, publicity and imageconsumption. In the spirit of continuing constructing,the new projects should stress out the continuity andthe interpretation of the valuable urban tissue and notthe building individuality emphasis. Escaping the landmarkscomposed city, would allow the (re)creation of ahomogeneous urban tissue that would actually sustainthe public spaces and structures.

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