Arquitectura latinoamericana contemporánea

"CEDODAL in collaboration with the Estrada family organized an exhibition and the present accompanying book that examines the life and professional career of Argentinean architect Estrada. The book gathers various authors who review in their texts the influence German architect Hermann Jansen had over the young Estrada, his integration to the National Forests project (1934) and his legacy in the planning of urban centers, infrastructure works and tourism and hotel architecture particularly in the Patagonian region. Estrada's culmination was the Civic Center of Bariloche, (today historic and...

El tercer número de Verb boogazine trata del estado cambiante de la ciudad en la era electrónica, de cómo la tecnología incide en la realidad urbana, las formas en que se concibe y cómo cambia la manera en que se experimenta y se vive el espacio de la ciudad.

"This study goes beyond a formal description and esthetic analysis of house design in Mexico to offer an interpretation based on the complex network of economic, social, and cultural relations. Begins with an analysis of the indigenous home and lifestyle and continues into postrevolutionary, modern, and contemporary periods of historic transition, during which a new conception of urban space developed offering greater possibilities for individual expression. Contains many b/w plates of colonial city plans, 19th-century plans and photographs, and 20th-century photographs up to the...

Las voces de la pantalla son las que se hacen oír desde el punto en que se mira. Sentados en la sala de cine o ante la pequeña pantalla del televisor, o ante la del ordenador, las voces marcan el tiempo de la contemplación. Voz y mirada se acoplan en la pantalla, se suplementan, se suman para crear la escena, para agregarle un plus de veracidad. Parece haber una ambición de infinito en el ser parlante, al modo de Borges en El aleph, que anhela ver el punto de donde parten todos los sentidos, todos los puntos de vista. En lo que hace a este anhelo, la voz proporciona al menos, un punto de...