Abstract

TRILLO, Joaquín. The big guarani house: stories of mobility and resistance between the paranaense jungle and the salto-jujeñas yungas. An. Inst. Arte Am. Investig. Estét. Mario J. Buschiazzo [online]. 2023, vol.53, n.1, pp.4-4. ISSN 2362-2024.

The Guaraní house maintains its presence in the communities that inhabit the foothills of the Yungas Salto-Jujeñas. Known by the name of Oga Capi’i (Casa Capi’i)1, the ways of inhabiting and building these domestic units respond to knowledge that could go back to the Oga Guasú (Big House), practiced in the Paraná jungle since before the arrival of the European. Beyond the technical and material characteristics, various senses enrich the dimension of their buildings towards broader meanings that would be taken by the Jesuits to compose functional analogous structures to the evangelization process. Having a significant influence on Río de la Plata’s colonial architecture, they would later adopt a marginal destination in the imaginaries of a global modernity. Throughout the work, the present of a way of living that challenges development discourses from the resignification of its interventions will be presented.

Keywords : coloniality; architecture; mobility; resistance; Argentina and Paraguay; XXth and XXIst Centuries.

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