ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1124050/monuments-in-crisis-from-the-national-hero-to-the-stray-dog Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:00:00 +0000 Beatriz Coeffé Boitano https://www.archdaily.com/1124050/monuments-in-crisis-from-the-national-hero-to-the-stray-dog For over 80 days of protest, our streets and buildings have been covered daily in slogans, posters, illustrations, and an endless array of visual material referencing the social demands of a country that claims to have awakened from a 30-year slumber. Meanwhile, public monuments throughout Chile are being tagged, altered, destroyed, or removed from their original sites, becoming a primary target for protesters—or, as the newspaper El Mercurio¹ puts it, for “vandals.”

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1120198/social-media-in-the-collective-construction-of-urban-memory-the-case-of-number-robinhoodgardens Thu, 23 May 2019 17:00:00 +0000 Beatriz Coeffé Boitano https://www.archdaily.com/1120198/social-media-in-the-collective-construction-of-urban-memory-the-case-of-number-robinhoodgardens In this article, Beatriz Coeffé Boitano presents a portion of her Master’s thesis in Arts and Cultural Management at King’s College London, titled “Brutalism Revival: media as active spaces of urban memory.” The piece reflects on the documentation and construction of a collective discourse around urban memory through social media platforms, focusing on the demolition of the brutalist Robin Hood Gardens complex by Alison and Peter Smithson.

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