Possibilidades de uma arquitetura reversa a partir da leitura das ocupações urbanas

Abstract

This paper aims to approximate the concept of reverse anthropology to architecture and discuss the possibility of reverse architecture being a counterpoint to the current architectural practice. From the exchange with anthropology it was possible to find new perspectives and bring into discussion concepts and authors not commonly used within the architectural field. Thus, the aim is to rethink cultural and symbolic relations as well as conventions rooted in architectural practices that reinforce architecture as an elitist and superfluous knowledge of the dominant classes. In this sense, the reading of the territory opposes the diagnostic analysis-solutions of common problems in architectural practice. The reverse architecture proposal consists of a way of transposing the agreed symbols in experimentation and in mediation so that they recognize in the Other, who lives and occupies, the capacity to know, understand and act in the territory, placing scientific knowledge in parallel with the inventive and creative look. In order to do so, a field study was proposed so that a reading was developed regarding the territory of urban occupations in the city of Timóteo from an ethnographic detour. During the field study, there were several surprises and new questions about architectural practice and its cultural conventions. Finally, this paper does not intend to solve problems, rather it intends to create new concerns capable of cracking the molds of knowledge and the reproduction system of architectural practice conventions.