BURRASCA 04. FAT / ANOREXICintents to point out the relationship between the body, its contemporary fashion and architecture. Fat/Anorexic is addressed as a dialectic couple that can describe today’s architectural perversions and pathologies but also its aesthetics and formalisms.
Anorexia is usually defined as an eating disorder resulting from a pathologic desire of being thinner and thinner. In contradiction to this phenomenon that still is one of today’s social issues, a high percentage of world’s population suffer of the opposite problem: overweight and its pathological manifestation, obesity.
Interestingly enough, both of these problems – &lFat&r and &lAnorexic&r – usually affect the richest part of the world. Our culture is indeed influenced by what they called as &lcultural industry&r, an industry that produces standardized cultural goods and – more importantly – an imaginary that we contribute to formulate as well as being influenced by.
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Our contributors manifested an appealing, broad perspective towards the Fat/Anorexic topic. From the analogy of Architecture as a body, distressed by the same physical diseases of a living organism, to the comparison of Maximalist/Minimalist formal approach towards the project, arriving to the Urban field, influencing Architecture by means of social, economical and political condition.
