Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic, with its lockdowns and mobility restrictions, has created an atmosphere of global reflection towards contemporary urban landscapes. Architecture is an essential component in them and determines, to a large extent, how building users perceive, interpret, and value the surrounding environment. From an experiential and phenomenological perspective, and taking into account the situations lived in 2020, the paper invites to examine the existing relations between architecture and urban landscape at three levels: first, the experience of the environment from the architectural space —namely, the home—; second, the experience of the “interior urban landscape” at street level; and finally, the experience of the “exterior urban landscape” from the city fringe or vantage points that provide vast prospects. The article advocates a holistic understanding of landscapes from the architectural and planning practice and proposes this integrating issue as the guiding axis of new urban policies.

Highlights

  • The COVID-19 crisis is sparking debates on central spaces

  • Mobility restrictions and prolonged sures usually acting on building and planning prostays at home during lockdowns have naturally cesses that have proven detrimental to the quality drawn attention to an issue frequently overlooked, of the urban landscape

  • This text will focus by the society considered (Lewis, 1979), giving form on architecture, the solid or built part of the urban and material expression to the relations desired to space, due to the author’s training

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Introduction

The COVID-19 crisis is sparking debates on central spaces. In addition, we will notice that landscape areveryday‐life aspects that before were scarcely con- chitecture presents some epistemological and cresidered or indefinitely postponed. Keywords Urban Landscape, Architecture, Experience of Landscape, Existential Space, City-landscape

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