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THIRTY FIVE EXAMPLES OF THE BEST MODERN GARDENS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. A SOURCEBOOK FOR AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL GARDENS.

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...

Medellín se convirtió en un referente internacional de la innovación urbana al dejar de ser una de las ciudades más peligrosas del mundo en menos de dos décadas. Aunque el mérito se atribuyó a diversos íconos políticos y electorales, un análisis crítico resalta el protagonismo de la ciudadanía. Jorge Pérez supera los relatos imperantes que plantean heroísmos inexistentes para trasmitir el verdadero sentido del proceso. Desde una novedosa perspectiva, refleja las bases del proceso desde un plano personal y experimental que a su vez se nutre de hechos y evidencias documentadas...

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.