Exploring the Landscape Keys of Modern Collective Housing: Valparaíso, Chile (1906-1976)

Abstract

This article exposes the landscape dimension of modern collective housing, as materialized in the city of Valparaíso between 1906 and 1976. Built from a community of agents made up of the State, social organizations and the architectural discipline, these actors have been capable of elaborating discourses, social and imaginary representations, which constitute the prelude to the physical-spatial formalization of housing in the daily geography of the city. Through a descriptive historical approach, this work delves into some relevant thematic axes of the discourse promoted by the actors involved, complemented with a selection of cases of collective housing where the presence of the landscape in its material and immaterial aspects is revealed. In this way, a different assessment from the traditional one is given, regarding the meaning of modern residential architecture in Valparaíso.