Historia de la forma urbana

Una de las cosas más importantes de este libro es que propone una estructura abierta de trabajo, un mecanismo de análisis que admite la investigación colectiva o individual, la aplicación académica o la pura especulación intelectual. En efecto, se trata de una serie de ensayos –o pequeñas reflexiones– que insinúan todo un territorio posible de exploración futura; un grupo de ""páginas"" en las que se examina un término o un concepto, manteniendo siempre la posibilidad de establecer múltiples conexiones entre ellos, o de aislar, segregar o clasificar los ensayos según la...

The work of the Colombian architect Harold Martínez Espinal, shows a way to purposeful way of thinking the architecture in the suburbs. This book makes a journey from his first works in the 1960's and 1970's, determined by the influence of modern architecture, until the beginning of the second millennium where his thought continues.

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 ...