La arquitectura del teatro

The remarkably prolific career of an innovative young Chilean architect is profiled in this engaging study. Born in 1965 and in professional practice since 1991, this architect's impact on his native landscape is observed mainly in a series of private houses located in some of the most sublime sites in Chile. The forceful yet austere character of his design approach and its radical relationship to surrounding landscape elements can be fully appreciated by viewing this book's fine pictorial panorama.

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...

Estos analisis sobre el lenguaje de la arquitectura se dirigen "a todos aquellos que aprecian lo suficiente la arquitectura para empezar a reflexionar sobre ella en lugar de limitarse a su contemplacion."

La historia de la humanidad está repleta de relatos fantásticos y extraños sobre ciudades legendarias que fueron las más avanzadas de su época, pero que de la noche a la mañana desaparecieron. Andoni Garrido, autor del famoso canal de YouTube «Pero eso es otra Historia», recoge casi cuarenta de estas leyendas de ciudades perdidas en la historia y en el tiempo, desde La Atlántida a El Dorado pasando por Lemuria, Hiperbórea, Shambhala, Yamatai, Cíbola o Aztlán entre otras, para tratar de dilucidar qué hay de verdad o de mentira en ellas, y tratar de buscar un posible origen para...