PSICOGEOMETRIA, GEOMETRIA SAGRADA Y ARQUITECTURA BIOLOGICA

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...

The recent boom of Chilean architecture of international and national recognition has been widely documented and promoted in mass publications, books and specialized journals. This book is a collaboration project between different architects that contribute to this process with critical texts of the historic contexts and problems faced by the urban-architectural practice in Chile, highlighting how the political-cultural events of the last 3 decades has influenced local construction. With texts by Jorge Fco. Liernur, Fernando Pérez, Federico Deambrosis and Pedro Bannen, and a prologue by...

La aparición de Observatorios Culturales es un fenómeno reciente que nace en una sociedad en que la información y el conocimiento se erigen como principal motor del desarrollo social, cultural, económico y político de un país. Punto de referencia de la industria creativa, entre sus fines prioritarios se encuentra la observación, supervisión y difusión de información para el sector cultural, la profundización del análisis de la realidad de cada comunidad y la búsqueda y difusión de información que contribuya a visualizar los impactos de los fenómenos culturales y a prever los...

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.