Arquitectura como tecnología de construcción de la realidad social

Abstract

This text develops the archaeotectonic approach reflected in the poster of the same name at the 1st International Archaeology of Architecture Seminar, with a view to showing graphically the potential and applicability to archaeology of certain analyzes and methodologies developed in the interdisciplinary field of Archaeology of Architecture. Working from a specific theoretical proposal defined from post-procesual landscape archaeology, we approach the syntactic analysis of domestic space at town level as a basic instrument in defining models or patterns of spatial organization which form the basis of a sociological interpretation of social-cultural formations from the past. We provide a concrete practical example of this: the application of spatial analyzes to an extensively excavated Galician-Roman fortified town will allow us to sketch a model of spatiality present in this period, exploring the problems of stability and survival of architectonic traditions from the Iron Age along with the factor of change and rupture imposed by the Romanization of the northwest of the Iberian peninsular.