En busca de Thomas Reed

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...

Cristian Jara relata la historia de los arquitectos de Chile durante el siglo XX, desde la etapa inmediatamente previa a la fundación del Colegio de la orden hasta la actualidad. El autor sostiene que desde el comienzo del periodo, los arquitectos nacionales alcanzaron una identidad profesional y gremial ligada a las necesidades que la sociedad iba planteando y estrechamente conectada con las ideas de la Arquitectura Moderna: "Los arquitectos llegaron a coincidir en que su rol social debía ser contribuir a la construcción de la ciudad moderna, y para lograr dicho objetivo debían obtener...

Barcelona 1992-2004 offers a selection of chronologically arranged projects that provide an overview of the period that commences with the 1992 Olympic Games and culminates in the huge cultural event that is the Universal Forum of Cultures-Barcelona 2004. The selection has focused in particular on projects involving the city’s openness to the sea and those which have managed to adapt to its existing residential fabric. Presented as separate chapters are projects for new high-rise buildings and schemes for the 22@ plan and the Universal Forum of Cultures. The selection is preceded by a text...

27 research papers grouped into 3 sections that range from architectural history to studies of patrimony, urban studies, and conservation. Continuation of the editorial project started in 1999 to promote scholarship on architecture in the state of Michoacan, Mexico.