“Why reject the old if one can modernize it with a few strokes of the brush. Be up to date and distinguished at the same time. Painting is over You might as well finish it off” Asger Jorn, 1959 Looking at the ideas of that cultural value, specially at the “ruin value” proposed by Albert Speer, it is clear that the way in which the past is seen in a work of architecture is something that can be created. Speer proposed to design buildings that would leave beautiful ruins. The question is how does one acknowledge the presence of the past in the urban present, without idealizing it? Without, in a way, preserving a lie, that the past was better than the present or the future?

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