Emilio Duhart deployed spatial structures on an urban or- ganization from modern criteria but distanced himself from its more orthodox postulates and adopted neoplasticism as a new way of establishing formal balances. However, as a final objective, his urban visions did not differ from the will of the architecture from other periods. Duhart understood that the city, as an urban space, is above all a human phenomenon. From this point of view, the architect reviewed exemplary cases of architectural and urban interventions throughout history, in order to detect their immanent values and bring them back to life, while materializing them from the modern form. This attitude of valuing history allowed him to place himself within an architectural tradition in which the lessons of other periods are incorporated as necessary references to provide the work with coherence and arguments that transcend its time. Through Emilio Duhart's work on the planning of Ciudad Universitaria de Concepción, the solvency (and convenience) of conceiving the buildings as part of a whole is demonstrated, in his own words, "not buildings with character, but a complex with character". All the design decisions are articulated to form one of the best quality urban spaces in Concepción, which, understood as an extension of the existing urban fabric, has ultimately become the largest public space with meaning and a sense of rootedness in a city that has seen its material memory fractured due to the cyclical earthquakes that have struck it. !
Esta actitud de valoración de la historia permitió a Duhart situarse dentro de una tradición arquitectónica en la cual las lecciones de otras épocas son incorporadas como referencias necesarias para dotar a la obra de coherencia y de argumentos que trascienden a su tiempo. This attitude of valuing history allowed him to place himself within an architectural tradition in which the lessons of other periods are incorporated as necessary references to provide the work with coherence and arguments that transcend its time.
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