The present from the past or the past from the present: two complementary ways of understanding contemporary architectural thought.

Abstract

The text explores the difficulties of teaching contemporary architectural thought, trying to find the causes, not due to temporary situations, but to the evolution of architecture, in its will to adapt to socio-spatial conditions of the context. From this point of view, it is especially important to highlight the insufficient explanation that current historiography makes of the transition between modern and contemporary architecture, so in this point we find a part of a history that still needs to be read. Within this framework, the hermeneutic of works of contemporary architecture is proposed as a methodology that contributes, on the one hand, to the understanding of architectural thought, but also, through genealogy, allows linking the past with the present and, therefore, overcoming the gap that we have formerly mentioned.