Crisis, Radicalization and Politics in Cordoba’s Taller Total, 1970-1975

Abstract

The Taller Total was, probably, one of the richest and most complex episodes in the history of Argentinean national Universities, in which political radicalization, architectural discussions and pedagogical debates overlapped. Taller Total was the product of a series of long brewing crises involving institutions, politics, society, the university, and the discipline of Architecture itself. For those reasons, it is an excellent case to enquire about the relationship between architecture and politics. The present article aims to reconstruct the processes that led to the experience of Taller Total, as well as to analyze its inner dynamics, and to advance in the identification of some urban-architectonic practices.