Ciudad y formación: experiencias académicas entre arquitectura y urbanismo

Abstract

Let the investigation, relative to the modernist practice of architecture and urbanism, be the historical fact relative to the work of architects and urban planners, the platform to present a work that is the product of the investigative work of teachers of the Faculties of Architecture and Civil Engineering of the Universidad Santo Tomás de Bucaramanga, on some occasions jointly with peers from other prestigious institutions, through which five investigations related to architecture, urban planning and territorial planning were carried out, all of them compiled thanks to the actions of the Directorate of Research and Innovation. The first four contributions are part of the production of the Research Group of the Faculty of Architecture (GINVEARQUI), while the last one is produced by a teacher from the sister Faculty of Civil Engineering. In summary, a series of chapters from different authors through which the reader is led to think again about the question of knowledge of architecture, the city and the territory and the relationships between the different components that are intertwined there, which they are the basis for an architect, an engineer, an urban planner or a planner to sketch environments that raise the quality of life of the population. Undoubtedly, an effort by the academy to respond to the demands of a society in which the investigative training of its students and teachers is required as a fundamental strategy for the production of Research Contributions Collection of an intellectual wealth that requires different types of connection and associations that go beyond lucrative interests or simply an academic commitment.