Volver a No Saber Poetry, Architecture and the Beginnings of Open City published in Companion on Architecture, Literature and The City

 

Kristen Kreider and James O'Leary 
Book chapter in The Routledge Companion on Architecture, Literature and The City edited by Jonathan Charley.
Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press (March 2019)

This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature, architecture, and the city, which together form a field of interdisciplinary research that is one of the most innovative and exciting to have emerged in recent years. For their contribution, Kreider + O’Leary present the essay ‘Volver a No Saber: Poetry, Architecture and the Beginnings of Open City’.

Functioning as both a metaphorical space and a living, working community, Open City began in 1970. Conceived as a radical pedagogical experiment, the city was founded by the Argentinian poet, Godofrodo Iommi, the Chilean architect, Alfredo Cruz, and other members of the Valparaíso School. Drawing from our site visit and study, we begin with specific architectural details to discuss Open City’s ethos, key principles and practices, interspersing this with a story of its beginnings. Moving through the site, shifting modalities and vocal registers, we posit Open City as a community of teaching, research, making and, ultimately, a form of resistance.

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