Rafael Urzúa

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...

In the immediate postwar years, a new type of modern architecture emerges. Beatriz Colomina presents domesticity as a potent new weapon in a changed architectural battlefield. This architecture becomes the property of the middle-class consumer bombarded with images of domestic bliss, a lifestyle campaign launched through recycled military techniques. The significance of architects like Charles and Ray Eames lies in their sensitivity to buildings and images both defining space. Colomina is Director of Princeton University's Architecture PhD program and acclaimed author of Privacy and Publicity ...

Toda arquitectura es museográfica, sobre cualquier forma construida se despliegan trazas de nuestro habitar en el mundo. Los proyectos de museos de Rafael Moneo permiten registrar soluciones arquitectónicas a distintas colecciones, desde el arte antiguo al arte contemporáneo, desde la figuración a la abstracción, desde lo pictórico a lo territorial, y resultan ejemplares por la consistencia de su gestación y la justificación de su construcción. Los seis casos aquí estudiados, Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida, Fundación Miró en Palma de Mallorca, Museo Thyssen de Madrid,...

1998 Premio Bienal: Historia Both an architectural and a social history, this book examines the social implications of the elaborate design, construction, and decor details of Colombian republican houses of the 19th and 20th centuries. The elegant hallways, warm bedrooms, and eclectic combinations of foreign styles are the main characteristics of Colombia's post-colonial homes and an evocative means to rediscover the majesty of Colombia’s Belle Époque. Una historia tanto de arquitectura como de una sociedad, este libro fotográfico ilumina las implicaciones sociales de los elaborados...