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In September of 2005 a group academics, civil organizations and federal, state and municipal government representatives were summoned with the purpose of analyzing the legislature, experiences and strategies developed for the protection and conservation of the cultural patrimony of Mexico. The meeting was held in the city of Morelia (State of Michoacn) where most of the conservation and protection efforts of viceregal architecture specialist Manuel González Galván took place, the reason which is why this colloquium honored his legacy. "After reading this memoirs of this colloquium, it is...

En su discurso de ingreso a El Colegio Nacional, Felipe Leal se remonta a los orígenes de la arquitectura —“testigo insobornable de la historia”, según Octavio Paz— y señala su importancia como hecho cultural, fundamental en la organización de las sociedades. Partiendo de la premisa de que la arquitectura “está hecha para celebrar el arte de vivir”, Leal expone los retos que enfrenta esta disciplina en el mundo posmoderno, en el cual solo veinticinco por ciento de la humanidad vive en condiciones aceptables. Felipe Leal dedica buena parte de su discurso al caso de la Ciudad...

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.

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...