La arquitectura moderna en Latinoamérica

"Taking over the baton from their mentor and friend Eduardo Chillida, the architects Juan Carlos Sancho (San Sebastián, 1957) and Sol Madridejos (Madrid, 1958) have pursued a sensitive dialectic between matter and void that lies at the foundations of a fertile formal laboratory, one where the fold is an instrument with great potential in the attainment of structural, spatial, and material coherence. In these pages Arquitectura Viva presents a selection of four Spanish works – ranging from a small chapel to a large educational complex – in which the duo composes variations on the same...

In this work, which is based on heritage architecture and cultural studies, the relationship between communities and habitat is studied to understand their way of conceiving and inhabiting the urban territory. The author participation in the Plan Especial de Manejo y Protección (PEMP) of the set of architectural assets of Republican architecture of Quibdó led her to question the handling of historical centers containing declared architectural assets in the country. The stories made invisible or denied by hegemonic heritage perspectives "were the route charted within the framework of the PhD ...

A multidisciplinary collaboration that explores and documents the transcultural and urban transformations of the town of San Juan del Rio in the State of Querétaro.

El Festival británico celebrado en Londres en 1951 representó la consolidación de la Arquitectura moderna y el Estilo internacional en el imaginario arquitectónico de la posguerra británica. Royal Festival Hall y Skylon, los dos emblemas del festival, simbolizaban una optimista expresión de la tecnología y los valores de una sociedad marcada por un firme sentido progresista. Con el avance de la década de los cincuenta, sin embargo, esta consolidación dio paso a su revisión crítica con el fin de dar respuesta a la sensibilidad emergente en la cultura británica promovida por la...