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Building Communities for the Cieties of the Future Construindo Comunidades para as Cidades do Futuro

Report of the 54th IFHP World Congress 2010 Porto Alegre, Brazil

Organizers • enee Nycolass R • Márcio Rosa D`Avila • Paulo Horn Regal • Paulo de Tarso da Silveira Müller • Julienne Chen

Cultural identities - social sustainability social cohesion
Kosta Mathéy University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany Rapid urban development in combination with the impacts of Globalization have, in many countries, eroded their unique features, while architectural monotony dominates the urban landscape: office towers, apartment buildings and shopping malls look the same all over the world. At the same time, social segregation is on the increase, which seems to be a contradiction considering that homogenization and differentiation are, in general, difficult to combine. In order to understand this contradiction and to contest these phenomena, commonly considered to be undesirable, we need to analyze the origin and characteristics of these unique features, understand why they were given and clearly define the values that we seek to preserve: cultural identity, social sustainability and social cohesion. Cultural identity Cultural identity, when referring to geographical characteristics, describes perceivable physical and nonphysical differences between one place and another, as they are common in vernacular buildings. Architectural theory and urban anthropology have identified a number of different factors that can explain diverse identities of place. Amos Rapoport was probably the first and most widely published author to systematically analyse the roots of these differences in his book ‘House Form and Culture’. In the following article, I will resume some well established and other more recently recognized influential elements: • Form follows function

Identidades culturais - sustentabilidade social coesão social
Kosta Mathéy Universidade Técnica de Darmstadt, Alemanha Em