WARM CLIMATES: JOURNEYS IN ARCHITECTURE AND LESSONS FROM TIME AND CULTURES

Abstract

Based on the journeys around the world taken by Fernando Távora and three architects of the recently opened School of Architecture of Seville in the 1960s, the way in which architecture was sensitive to the environment, its capacity for integration with the natural forms of the land, and the search for passive solutions for protection from extreme weather conditions in countries with a warm, humid or dry climate in works from other times and other civilisations are recalled. The text has the objective of encouraging research on solutions based on construction typology constants, in harmony between craftsmanship and nature, and in interpretation of climate, social and cultural realities as some of the responses that architecture offers to face the problems of climate change, contributing to the objective of a society based on efficient and sustainable criteria. The articles which give continuity to this text may be understood as the first lines of this collective research.