Grecia antigua

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...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

¿Qué hacer hoy con la noción de límite y cómo concebir los espacios cuando la distinción entre ciudad y cambio, entre público y privado, entre interior y exterior desaparece? ¿Qué ocurre con las nociones de distancia, continuidad, densidad, diversidad, hibridez, cuando la velocidad del desplazamiento de bienes, información y personas crece tan rápidamente? ¿Cómo planificar una sociedad mas abierta en un mundo más incierto? ¿Cómo actuar por la colectividad en una sociedad cada vez más diversificada y más individualizada? “Uno de los mejores textos de síntesis sobre el...

Ask Americans to think of a famous architect and the person they are most likely to name is Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright's work, his reputation, and his long and colorful career have made him an icon of modern American architecture. But despite his status as America's most celebrated architect, his influence throughout an active practice spanning the years 1896 to 1959 is so wide and complex that it has been difficult to grasp fully. The essays in this book look not at the United States, the context usually associated with Wright, but at countries around the globe. Anthony Alofsin has assembled ...