Towards a Suprarural Architecture

Ciro Najle, Essay, expanding design practices, Lluís Ortega, Low Density, Southern Coexistences, Suprarural, Territory and mobility

Agrarian Landscape, Agricultural trends, Agriculture, Argentina, Discipline, Ecological researches, Essay, Landscape, Landscape planning, New Statements on Nature, Notes towards a History of Urbanism, Regional patterns, Research, Rural, Rural environment, Rural protocols, Searches on scales, Southern Coexistences, Technification, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires and at the School of Architecture of the University of Illinois, Urban exploration, Urban Paradigms, Urban sprawl, USA, Utopian practices

Extract from "Suprarural : architectural atlas of rural protocols of the American Midwest and the Argentine Pampas", 2017 -- https://lccn.loc.gov/2018286052

Suprarural claims a new domain for the practice of architecture. By turning the discipline’s dysfunctions vis-à-vis the urban and its systematic oversights regarding the countryside into a new set of opportunities, Suprarural issues an urgent call for a theory that can overcome both and extend the spectrum of capabilities of architecture by engulfing the ordering systems of the territory. The project is carried out through a program of investigation that takes the know-how embedded in the rural—its organizational protocols, its synchronicity with the natural, and its often disregarded technification—as the raw material for a new form of architectural expertise.