Mediterranean: A Certain Genius of Inhabiting

Authors

  • Gonçalo Gomes CHAIA – Centro de História de Arte e Investigação Artística da Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.38027/mediterranean-cities_vol1no1_1

Keywords:

Landscape, Genius loci, Ethos, Inhabiting

Abstract

Embracing a geographic reality that connects the East to the West, and the North to the South, the Mediterranean basin is a melting pot of landscape diversity, which embodies equally distinct cultures, languages, behaviours, creeds, and many other identity traits, intercrossed in a shared History. But above all plurality, is it possible to identify a unity in the approach to the act of inhabiting, of architecting – in an etymological sense of building, of creating Man’s place – landscape and, consequently and intrinsically, housing, through processes that, albeit formally apart, are very close in essence? Through the analysis of different authors, with different approaches – from Braudel’s historiography to the traveling impressionism of Matvejevitch, through Orlando Ribeiro’s passionate but thorough scrutiny – we will try to reveal a transversal inhabitance genius, not confined to a determined loci, in search of that which translates a wider ethos: the Mediterranean.

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Published

15.12.2021

How to Cite

Gomes, G. (2021). Mediterranean: A Certain Genius of Inhabiting. Journal of Mediterranean Cities, 1(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.38027/mediterranean-cities_vol1no1_1

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