Arquitectura Moderna de la A A La Z

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...

Traces the career of the turn of the century Spanish architect, shows his designs for homes, apartments, schools, and churches, and discusses his unique, organic style

Este libro recoge obras y proyectos de los últimos años de la carrera del arquitecto mexicano Alberto Kalach, haciendo énfasis especial en los primeros pasos de cada uno de ellos. Como si de una bitácora o libreta de croquis se tratara, el libro procura rescatar la esencia de las ideas y la frescura de los primeros trazos, desde una estructura temática y tipológica que aborda desde la casa unifamiliar a la vivienda colectiva, desde sus proyectos de torres hasta su proyecto La Ciudad Lacustre, proyecto premiado en la Bienal de Venecia (2002) donde se vuelve a llenar de agua los lagos...

The author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...