ARQUITECTURAS EFIMERAS

Estos analisis sobre el lenguaje de la arquitectura se dirigen "a todos aquellos que aprecian lo suficiente la arquitectura para empezar a reflexionar sobre ella en lugar de limitarse a su contemplacion."

Diego López Bueno, vivió y trabajó en Sevilla durante toda su vida. Artista formado en el circulo de Gerónimo Hernández, compaginó su labor como ensamblador y escultor con la de arquitecto tracista de retablos y edificios religiosos y civiles, ocupando las maestrías mayores del Arzobispado y de los Reales alcázares durante el primer tercio del siglo XVII.

A study of Bogota viewed as a museum (outside of the traditional museum). This work offers a critical look at modern city through a series of tours through downtown Bogotá, specifically on Seventh Avenue between Calles 11 and 16 that was transformed from Bogotazo through an urban renewal project. It turned the area into a paradigm of what should be a modern Bogotá. The book discusses the aesthetic character of its architecture, the connections between traditional museums, and reaffirmed the principles of order and functionality of the modern movement and led to rules that have sought...

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...