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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 volume focusses on the mosaics and geometric designs from Ecija, the ancient Roman Astigi, the capital of the Conventus Astigitanus, which is one of four conventus iuridici that made the Roman Baetica. This work is part of a much larger study centered recently on the mosaics and the geometrical compositions of the Conventus Astgitanus, whose immediate objective pursued to cover the analysis of the musivaria of the whole of Baetica.In conjunction with the mosaics catalogue, this volume presents a catalogue of geometric designs, which are results of studies of different fields that make up ...

Libro que ofrece en su primer volumen un indefinido pero largo número de visitas detalladas a la inmensa minoría de edificios y paisajes que configuran el mundo de los Modernismos syndéticos. La syndesis implica ligar con una conjunción; la obra nos ofrece la visión de cada autor, Castro en Chile, Rueda en Colombia y Mellin en Estados Unidos, sobre la syndesis un común denominador sobre el efecto o resultado -y una indicación quizás sobre el proceso creativo- que caracteriza edificios, lugares y paisajes.

A l'occasion du dixième anniversaire du Parlement européen, cet ouvrage revient sur la destinée architecturale, urbaine, paysagère, régionale, sociale et politique de cette institution internationale accueillant en session 785 députés européens.