Heterarchical Architecture and Relational Cybernetics: From Villa San Luis to the UNCTAD III Building

Abstract

Some answers to current architectural concerns seem to come from the discussion between sustainable and sustainability models. The Chilean local scenario is often removed from this debate and its practical implications. One of the cases that confirm the rule is the approach of the possible third-order cybernetics currently being developed in Chile. Some of its theoretical tools are used here for the analysis from a retrospective to a prospective look, aiming at not repeating mistakes that have been recognized as endogamic in the negative relation of omitting referents. Thus, this research focuses particularly on revealing an exceptional local development case under what today we could call relational cybernetics, linked to social housing and the construction of the emblematic UNCTAD III (Third United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) building, fifty years ago.