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Announcement RChD: Creación y Pensamiento Vol. 9, Nº 17| NOV 2024 | Open Topic. Deadline for full manuscript submission: July 31, 2024. 

Humberto Díaz-Casanueva and a Vision on the Technical-Cultural Relationship

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Abstract

This paper, develops from a critical analysis the main reflections extracted from the article "La técnica en Alemania vista por un chileno", authored by the intellectual Humberto Díaz-Casanueva, published in the journal Técnica y cultura nº 6, in the month of July 1937. Díaz's text, which refers to his impression on the problem of technique perceived in the European country, is possible to subject it to an analytical operation that allows to identify philosophical, artistic and cultural references in the installation in Chile of the technical and culture relationship, building a map of influences that provide the context in which the thinking of Díaz-Casanueva develops. As main conclusions, aspects related to this relationship can be noticed that establish a discussion about industrial production and productive spaces, possible to be thought of as prolegomena of an idea of modern project, which can be seen in its conceptual aspects.

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Architecture, culture, design, modernism, technique