Rascacielos

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...

La arquitectura se ha interrelacionado con el arte a lo largo de su historia no sólo con las edificaciones, la manifestación física de las formas constructivas, sino también mediante su expresión gráfica. Sin embargo, en el último siglo la arquitectura ha penetrado profundamente tanto en la vida cotidiana como en el arte, y todo el arco conceptual existente entre ellos se ha «arquitecturizado». Es decir, la arquitectura no sólo se ha conformado en tanto que aliado de una serie de «políticas estatales de sujeción», sino también como una «materia prima» fundamental para...

Este livro revela que o design encontra-se pautado pelo binômio estética-funcionalidade. Revela que, independentemente do tamanho das divisões, os conceitos reinantes são o equilíbrio e a harmonia.

This number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...