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M. Zarate EL LUGAR URBANO COMO ESTRATEGIA DE CONOCIMIENTO PROYECTUAL EN URBANISMO.A. Magnaghi SCENARI STRATEGICI E PROGETTO LOCALE: VERSO LA BIOREGIONE URBANA. M. Carta PATRIMONIO TERRITORIALE, DESCRIZIONE STRUTTURALE, STATUTI DEL TERRITORIO, SCENARI DI TRASFORMAZIONE E PROGETTI INTEGRATI. CINQUE PUNTI CHIAVE PER UN APPROCCIO TERRITORIALISTA AL PROGETTO E AL GOVERNO DEI NUOVI PAESAGGI Territorial Heritage, Structural Description, Statutes of the Territory, Strategic Scenarios and Integrated Project. Five Key Points for an Innovative Approach to the Project and the Government of New...

La arquitectura es una forma de escritura, cargada de signos, de yuxtapuestas grafías y de múltiples sentidos. Escritura de piedra pues –como la llamó un poeta–, la arquitectura es pasado construido, muros que cuentan, narrativa concreta. Los edificios aquí reseñados son grafías urbanas, porque están inscritos en los recodos de la ciudad, en sus rastros y en sus restos, en aquellos fragmentos que de nosotros mismos y de nuestros ancestros, que han quedado desperdigados por las calles en damero. Grafías como modo de escribir, de representar sonidos, viejos y ahogados bullicios que...

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.

This volume features 25 architectural works constructed in Chile by architect Valdés between 1963 and 2007. It also comprises a series of texts that the author gathered after several conversations with the architect from 2001 to 2006, in a first-hand account of the creative process established by the architect about design, material, construction and space.