Claus en Kaan

Study of the architectural and urban transformations in Puebla from the period of Independence to the Mexican Revolution.

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...

Las ventajas compositivas y constructivas de la fachada ventilada explican su rápida difusión. Emergen ofertas de productos y sistemas desde los orígenes más dispersos del sector. Estos brindan la posibilidad de industrializar el cerramiento y liberar la imagen del edificio. Pero esa diversidad de orígenes e intereses provoca cierta confusión en la síntesis de soluciones.

The present edition publishes part of the research papers presented during the "Seminario de Investigación Arquitectura para la Producción" organized by the university of Michoacán between 2001 and 2002 that included the participation of national and international academics. The book gathers 23 collective and individual multidisciplinary works that examine from various perspectives the history of architecture in rural areas. Works are mainly focused in the colonial territory of the ex-bishopry of Michoacán divided in 4 main topics: Space, settlements, technology and environment and...