Australia architecture & design

Sobre el libro: Los textos que componen la presente edición bajo el titulo Las primaveras de Ilión cierran el cuarteto de crónicas del acontecer de la ciudad moderna, recogidas en tres libros anteriores del autor: La metrópoli vacía (1990), Esplendor y fragmento (1997) y La ciudad herida (2001). Son escritos que narran en escueta prosa poética la evolución y tensiones de la ciudad en los territorios de la planificación de naturaleza mercantil, el deterioro de su racionalidad y espacialidad arquitectónica; también sus aleatorias conquistas y utópicos esbozos. El autor, en los cuatro ...

Inventory of architectural patrimony and popular culture in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The first part is devoted to architecture and monuments from Pre-Columbian , colonial, 19th and 20th century, with emphasis on Pre-Columbian cultures. Includes mural art and some information on archival holdings. The second half is devoted to folkart, crafts, local culinary history, folklore, fiestas at the village, town, city and state levels.

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...

A major critical study by noted architect and researcher Ramón Gutiérrez on the different phases of the history and evolution of the architectural patrimony of Paraguay spanning from primitive and colonial times to present days. The book includes a large collection of period photographs and color reproductions of the watercolors of the city of Asuncion done between 1855 and 1856 by French traveler Francisco Vincent of colonial and old Asuncion that graphically document how the original urban profile of Asunción has paid the tribute of the urban development and progress sacrificing its most ...