CELAT (Université Laval), Québec, 1er avril 2016
Dans le cadre du premier colloque étudiant de l’IPAC et en collaboration avec le CELAT
"Consuming Heritage and the End of Tradition: From the Vernacular to the Global"
Nezar Alsayyad, professeur d’architecture, de planification, de design urbain et d’histoire urbaine à l’University of California, Berkley
The changes that the world has undergone over the past two decades have created a dramatically altered global order which requires a new understanding of the role of traditional settlements in the reconstruction of history. Using a model which is based on recognizing the historic inevitability of dominant relationships between the so-called First and Third Worlds, this talk will review the different historic phases relevant to the study of such traditional settlements: the insular period, the colonial period, the era of independence and nation building, and the present era of globalization. Four accompanying settlement forms – the indigenous vernacular, the hybrid, the modern or pseudo-modern, and the postmodern – are identified and analyzed in relationship to their historic contexts.