A paper of mine, analyzing and debating the designs of
sinuous ditches in Portugal, is available here:
Abstract
The number of known ditched enclosures
in South Portugal has been increasing in the last years, being almost thirty
now. Between them, several present a peculiar design that has been designated
by “sinuous ditches”. This peculiar configuration didn’t raise the necessary
attention to its interpretation, as a result of a axiomatic functional
attribution that doesn’t question the ideological foundations of architecture.
In this paper, I will present the
inventory of the sites with this design, which seems to concentrate in the middle
Guadiana Basin. A contextual characterization will be done to support a
critical analysis of the traditional interpretation and provide the
argumentation for an alternative discourse, more related to a “cosmological
architecture”.
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