Thesis
Thesis for a creative process
Cazu Zegers Architecture
Cazú Zegers has a different angle of approach towards architecture, generating articulations and infrastructure from the poetic word.
Zegers incorporates an expressive search, closely related to Latin America, its territory, landscape and traditions. From here arises a work “in progress” that involves a poetic reflection on the way we inhabit the territory.The thesis that inspires her work is related to the idea of living in a “light and precarious way”, referring to a lo-tek architecture but with a high experiential impact; understanding that the greatest value of Chile and Latin America is in its territory:
“The territory is to America, as the monuments are to Europe,” says Cazú.
“My architecture is born from the perception
to include observation as an initial element of the architectural process. This is when the “where” you situate yourself manifests in the territory, using observation as a tool of abstraction. This is how the first gesture of the architectural work is born. To explain it further, I have created the methodology named “Plaza de Rombo” that provides a figure of the landscape through drawing. The rhombus figure is capable of displaying space, the center of which is defined by the observer, who appears in the territory for analysis and drawing of the place. What we undertsand as “Geopoetics” is also born here: an encounter between geographical attributes that are observed and the poetic word.
Geopoetics
Current of thought and concept coined by Kenneth White that describes the poetics of territories as creators of culture (Institut Geopoetique, 1979).
