We inhabit a world in which more and more the differences between cultures, peoples and countries tend to fade. As a result of this almost inevitability, we constantly witness to the contamination of habits towards a uniform world society, culminating in the loss of identity and belonging between people and their places.
In this dissertation we intend to understand the role of architecture in this panorama. How has it behaved throughout history and what is the feasibility of a current and effective response in preserving the individuality of places, without losing the virtues of a technologically advanced future and concerned with the sustainability of our actions. We therefore consider the feasibility of an architecture capable of fostering territorial development.
With the intention of relating these subjects, we deepen the study of regionalism in architecture in function of the presentation of two architects whose work contributes positively to a current perspective of these subject