Deriva a través de la construcción del subconsciente colectivo: el territorio, la arquitectura, la ciudad, el libro

Abstract

Our identity can be observed through the role that architecture plays in its construction from an amplified point of view, without adhering to the purely formal aspects of the discipline. The idea of the “Marlboro Man” drawn from documenting the pioneers of the Midwestern United States, citizen self-surveillance in the German Democratic Republic in the 1970s, or the crys tallization of the bourgeois class society in the design of the Besanç on Theather are just some of the examples that can help us understand the role of Territory, City and Architecture in the construction of the collective subconscious. If we understand architecture in the terms laid out by Michel Foucault, that is, as an instrument of power in which control strategies, body disciplines and biopolitical devices converge, it is easier to understand the city as a battlefield in which the subtleties of identity are forged. In the same way, the image of ar chitecture and the way it has been narrated have gradually built the subconscious of the discipline.