ABSTRACT
The broad economic and political consensus regarding the idea of progress in the West emerged from the beginning of the last century, particularly in the countries called to develop, as an agile engine of structural and paradigmatic change, even ontological, from the ideal of the future promoted by the modern ideology. That modernizing rationality has had as its ultimate goal to cover not only the city but the territory as a whole and urbanize it, promoting a powerful campaign of motorization and technification of the various regions of the planet, sometimes uncontrolled expansion that today has become the main promoter of climate change (see for example any independent report on pesticide use and its effects); Numerous voices have been crying out since the early 1960s for a radical transformation that today seems urgent based on the irrefutable evidence, despite which every year we see the situation worsening caused by the excessive growth of extractivism and consumption.
From the questioning of the classic division between nature and artifice that is at the base of our relationship with the world, the possibility of an architectural practice without first questioning the modern and postmodern axioms that govern it is also questioned. From the recovery of the skepticism of the zetetic, the possibility of looking at the world again no longer as a global integrity but from the small that supposes an extensive heterogeneity that composes the local and that reorients us towards the material of the physical world to discover in it the possibilities of action of the design capable of acting with the resources available there and producing a situated architecture.
As an example of zetetic architecture of material-cultural value, a work produced from the use of old disused agricultural machinery transformed into a quarry from its dismantling and resignification is offered. The assessment and study of the place and the use of available materials raise new possibilities beyond the conventional disciplinary views.
