HACIA UNA TEORÍA DE LA IDENTIFICACIÓN CON EL LUGAR

Abstract

This article attempts to offer one model which might help to explain exactly how people make sense of place and identify with it. In order for architecture to be understood in terms of cultural identity, the author addresses one of the crucial problems that exist within theories such as Critical Regionalism that restrict themselves to discussions of form. It argues that a highly suggestive model for understanding the relationship between physical form and cultural identity — ‘belonging’ — can be drawn from Judith Butler’s work on “performativity”.