Introductions Sebastiano Brandolini, Brian Carter

Features a selection examining houses that have broken away from the past and that define today's innovation and tomorrow's classicism. The book does not aim to convert these houses into prototypes to follow; they are included because they reflect the peculiarities of their era, sites and owners.

To know the work of art in its historical context we can understand and explain its meaning, the symbols involved, the author's intention and the reasons that allowed its creation. In this sense, the book seeks to recognize the various manifestations of art in its historical perspective. The book comprises ten original works, that try to discern the artistic creations since Pre-Hispanic times, in the Viceroyalty, up to the current period, and where visual arts, drama and music are also involved. "This book emerges as a need to spread the texts on art carried out by professors and students of...

A study by the founder of the Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad del Bío-Bío. The first part is a history from pre-Columbian times to 1973, omitting the long colonial period. The second part considers the evolution of urbanism in Chile and includes a chronology of national and international architectural events and several annexes.

7 papers presented at the simposium "Arquitectura y Percepción" in 2005. The emphasis was on architecture of the 1960's and 1970's.