Dreams of Patagonian landscapes

Manufactures in a great southern territory

Abstract

Patagonia is a cultural construction with a set of landscapes diversely represented and weighed from a contemporaneity view. Some are charismatic landscapes frequently characterized by their naturalness; others are micropaysages; some are anthropic manufactures; they can all be interpreted as places. But discrete landscapes which are analyzed by field theories constitute the dominant feature. The land is marked by its phenomenological power and experience (windslashed vastness, species-landscape, traveler apprehension) and the fact of being considered the Global Garden. Possibilities and questions raised by 21st century landscape urbanism in this great territory of the South are researched: Trench urbanism? Infrastructural urbanism? This practice could be very different from European, American or Japanese ones. Its application could be adapted to suit the specificities of Patagonia as a complex milieu, the recovery of urbanism as proper localization, the management in accordance with development potential and the introduction of key strategies and operations for action. This home-conceived extraordinary territory invites to sound out other worlds in which desire, politics, architecture, landscaping, ecology, and a new management of energy are fields to be strengthened and transferred consistently and creatively.