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Modern Architecture and Heritage

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Title Modern Architecture and Heritage. Study of Gilberto's Works
Gatto Sobral in Cuenca
Investigation Group Architecture Research Group
Year 2024

Executive Summary

The research project faces the identification of values ​​that would make a work of modern architecture heritage. The hypothesis is based on assuming that a common thread towards the authenticity of modernity in the Americas could be found in the work of Gilberto Gatto Sobral. The identification of modern values ​​is based on the results of the research project “Modern architecture and heritage. Study of the works of Gilberto Gatto Sobral in Cuenca” (2023-2024, Code 2023-0137); specifically in two. First: that the recognition and appreciation of modernity in Cuenca is possible through construction, since it demonstrates the existing relationship between tradition and avant-garde; second: the documentation and reconstruction of a work is imminent tangible evidence; Therefore, its safeguarding for its knowledge and dissemination contributes to the interpretation of a collective imagination.


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