Derivas urbanas: la ciudad extrañada

Abstract

Architecture doesn’t only build places with steel, timber, concrete or glass, but also with action and gaze. Through drifts carried out in different cities, different ways of understanding urban reality are established. These ways are often buried under the dominant representations of the city. Building documents that show the city from tangential points of view, related to subjective views and particular experiences, is beyond a mere representation exercise. The urban drift maps shown in this article reveal intense links with the city through action, resulting in new urban visions. New ways of perceiving the city pave new ways of understanding the rich urban reality, which at the same time open new ways of transforming it from the architectonic project. The ultimate purpose of the presented drifts is that of opening up to the richness of the city in order to uncover numerous meaningful levels that suggest new ways of transforming the city.