Framing the Disordered Landscape. On reading Robert Smithson: Architecture as Eological Construction

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Carlos Lacalle García

Abstract

[…]
and no whiteness (lost) is so white as the memory
of whiteness
William Carlos Williams, The Descent, 1954
This essay aims to weave the warp where the consideration of architecture understood as a “ruin” can be assumed, but lacking completeness. Architecture as eological construction invites us to consider the space ‘under construction’, an open architecture that is beyond its limits.
In this way, following Robert Smithson (1938-1973) in Landscapes of Loss, allows us to reverse the sense of “landscape”, open, always under construction where a dialogue takes place with the past; but accepting that the landscape (architecture) ‘unfolds’ with our new current perspective (inhabiting the space), with our involvement yet to come (poem).
Remembrances are but numbers on a map, vacant memories constellating the intangible terrains in deleted vicinities. It is the dimension of absence that remains to be found. The expunged color that remains to be seen… Yucatan is elsewhere. (Holt 103)

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Framing the Disordered Landscape. On reading Robert Smithson: Architecture as Eological Construction. (2020). VERBEIA. Revista De Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies, 4, 31-51. https://doi.org/10.57087/Verbeia.2020.4272

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