Abstract

The discourses, in the proposal of Michel Foucault, consist of a series of statements or approaches that communicate a certain idea and define everything that can be said about a theme from the conformation of a particular way of understanding reality. In the case of architecture, the discourses could be used to define assumptions about the duty of the discipline and to conform criteria for the valuation of architectural production, such as works. Under the argument that there will always be discourses from which to justify architecture, a review of contemporary architectural practice centered on the intentions, yearnings, or recurrences of architects rather than on works themselves seems to be not only a pertinent work but a delayed task for the discipline, especially in the case of Latin America, because although the architects are aware of the implications that have the use of certain discourses we have not assumed them as field of production of knowledge.