Transcolonial architectural identity

Abstract

The article aims to present a multigenerational type
of architectural manifestation and to argue for its
preservation. It is a pattern that brings together vivid,
intense and ardent sociocultural eruptions. Germinations
that occur today and, at least since the turn of
the 19th and 20th centuries, in the suburbs of many
(the hypothesis is that it occurs in the vast majority)
of the world’s modern metropolises, whose crucial
importance has gone unnoticed by everyone. We call
such material revelations of architectural forms and spaces “transcolonial”, which are, at the same time
and mainly, political externalizations of collective declarations
and proclamations. We point to these physical-
political emergencies as capable of fulfilling a
key function in making city planning viable. We want
to confront some realities of these suburban appearances
as identity collections of local communities
and discuss the relevance of their preservation for
proper and truly effective urban proposals.