O Amor em Copilco: uma leitura arquitectónica da vida contemporânea na Cidade do México

Abstract

O Amor em Copilco presents a phenomenological reading ofthe formation and procedure of the social space in Mexico City.With experimentation as a starting point, the space of public interactionshall be interpreted through the principals of a diverseyet interconnected group of authors, whose work varies betweenarchitecture and urban image, mexican and post-colonial sociology,theory of language and philosophy of love. This theoreticalcontextualization focuses its analysis on the urban language andidentity of Mexico City.The proposition of reflection about such social space, area ofinter-subjective contact, shall lead to the association between thenotions of public space and intimate space. Used as a case study,this association has a surprising manifestation in Copilco, wherenot only it becomes clear the public space is handled through a peculiarappropriation, it also reveals the context that sociologicallyjustifies it.This theoretical dissertation seeks out to understand and expressa foreign urban and socio-cultural reality, based on the relativesemiotics of language to intersect parallel epistemologies.