TO PRODUCE ARCHITECTURE IS TO EMBRACE LANDSCAPE
HOSPITALITY AND ROGELIO SALMONA’S TORRES DEL PARQUE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4013/arq.2025.211.02Keywords:
Paisagem, Hospitalidade, Rogelio Salmona, Torres del Parque, Arquitetura Latino-AmericanaAbstract
Abstract
This article examines the housing complex Torres del Parque, designed by Rogelio Salmona in Bogotá, as an expression of an ethics of hospitality grounded in the interplay between architecture and landscape. Based on the categories of form, function, structure, and process — inspired by the thought of Milton Santos — it investigates how the work transcends functionalist modernism by proposing a sensitive and relational experience of urban dwelling. The article adopts landscape as a theoretical-methodological operator to understand the project not only as the outcome of geographical and historical constraints, but also as a cultural and political practice committed to hospitality. The interpretation proposes architecture as mediation between city, nature, and culture, capable of producing spaces that foster encounters, belonging, and the recognition of otherness through forms open to the territory, to the other, and to the future.
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