Volumen 9 Un Encuentro de La Arquitectura Con Las Artes I

Este libro constituye una exploración de carácter teórico acerca de las correlaciones entre la ecología y la arquitectura, en el que se desarrollan temáticas en forma de ensayos sobre el fenómeno arquitectónico y su relación con el medio ambiente, en el marco de la problemática ecológica. En esta reflexión teórica se analiza cómo es que cierta forma, que han venido adquiriendo algunas contradicciones sociales, viene a determinar una reorientación conceptual de los objetos de la arquitectura, definiendo los elementos que configuren una plataforma de crítica a las nuevas...

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...

Publication of the conference papers from the continuation of the international seminar and project laboratory by César Naselli, Noemi Goytia, Susana Olmos, Mónica Bertolino and Claudio Ferrari, the written works by Roberto Doberti, Gustavo Dallman and Mariana Dolbú on townscape /landscape, architectonical composition, environment efficiency and productivity.

Mallol is an architectural design center that functions under the lead of its director and promoter, Panamanian architect Ignacio Mallol Tamayo. This edition examines 25 year of professional operations of the largest architectural firm in Central America and illustrates, with more than 270 color images, representative examples of Latin American 21st century architecture, highlighting the firm's most representative buildings: Le Cube Mallol, one of the early designs (where Mallol plays with forms, space and symetry), a clear example of the type of large constructions that would later...