Buenos Aires: So close and yet so far

Abstract

We live in a time when the production and circulation of cultural goods are becoming increasingly independent from their territorialities. This also applies to iconography related to the architecture of the cities. However, although the image of the architecture that is supposedly characteristic of a territory may be instantly captured by the receptor, this is not the case of its materiality. In order to truly grasp it, one needs to experience “something” that apparently does not circulate in the communication and information media. Based on the report of a walk through the streets of Buenos Aires, as a metaphor of the conflict between the high speed of the circulation of images and the low speed of the circulation of bodies, this article discusses the americanization of Brazilian cities.