Matías Beccar Varela participates with a dissertation and a written article in the Jornadas de Historia y Crítica de la Arquitectura at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires. The presentation is part of a line-up of speakers of the stature of Jorge Francisco Liernur and Claudia Schmidt.
From the abstract:
«This work explores a series of very specific technological dispositions and formal configurations of Glenn Murcutt’s work that—displayed in their centrality regarding the evolution of his career—seeks to pour out the type of connection between Nature and design that feeds them. This affiliation seems to have all the characteristics of a line of scientific research or at least be circumscribed to a plot of rationality, of causes and ends, of functions.
Modernity, as Murcutt himself tells us, may not have yet ended, and its pilgrimage channels towards technical objectivity could legitimately turn towards a form of elucidation—by architectural design—of environmental phenomena. It is this special field of interest that we understand, in its contemporary relevance and sophistication, as a germinal moment in the work of Glenn Murcutt and which, departing from there, allows us to imagine fruitful territories of exploration not only within the technological scope but within the more general scope of design. »
