Modernity, Urban Design and Utopia: Notes on the political basis of the shares of Urban Renewal in Santiago. CORMU 1966-1973. (Part Two)

Abstract

The architecture of the CORMU is not interested in the reproduction of the style and codes of the Modernist Architecture or follow the project methods inspired by types and morphology. Instead it is concerned with stating what need to be said. It was part of the government discourse and communicated in the most efficient and universal language it had. Possibly the architecture and the housing related urbanism of the CORVI and CORMU is the most 'identifiable' items in our cities, they are the expressions of the late republican developmentalism of the Chilean Government.