Estructuras no convencionales en arquitectura

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 nineties, the modern orthodoxy has stopped imposing its criteria. At a time when there are as many architectural philosophies as architects, this volume offers us some answers to the common question of where present-day architecture is going. This view of the current world of architecture is presented through analysis of the projects of the most recognized and respected architects, but also the most innovative ones and those of the new generations.

El segundo volumen de Cristianismo, Historia y textualidad, la obra cumbre de Luis Vergara Anderson, explora la posibilidad de conciliar la tradición cristiana con la hindú del Vedanta-advaita, siguiendo las intuiciones de un par de monjes que vivieron para lograr este objetivo. Si cabe afirmar la Encarnación universal desde el cristianismo, podríamos encontrar una identidad insospechada entre ambas tradiciones religiosas. A la luz de un magnífico estudio técnico sobre la predicación de Jesús sobre el Reino de Dios, que recrea el estado del arte de la cuestión del Jesús histórico,...

La actualidad e interés de cuanto este libro plantea quedaría demostrada con solo llevar a cabo una visión retrospectiva de algunos aspectos del desarrollo de la restauración en nuestro país.