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Shaping Terrain
Shaping Terrain shows how the physical landscape and local ecology have influenced human settlement and built form in Latin America since pre-Columbian times. Most urban centers and capitals of Latin American countries are situated on or near dramatically varied terrain, and this book explores the interplay between built works and their geographies in various cities including Bogotá, Caracas, Mendoza, Mexico D. F., Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile, and Valparaíso. The multi-national contributors to Shaping Terrain have a broad range of professional experience as urbanists, historians, and architects, and many are globally renowned for their design work. They examine how humans negotiate with the existing environment and how the built form expresses that relationship. The result is a wide-ranging representation of the unique legacy of Latin America’s urban heritage, which is a repository of possibilities for future cities.
Gaston Lelarge
Gaston Lelarge es, sin duda alguna, uno de los profesionales más importantes en la cultura arquitectónica nacional, y quizás el más representativo de los constructores del periodo republicano en el país. Su obra, elocuente y refinada, contribuyó al desarrollo de la “nueva” arquitectura de finales del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX, principalmente en Bogotá y Cartagena, ciudades en las que vivió y dejó un legado indeleble que hoy está reconocido como parte fundamental de su patrimonio construido. Nacido en Rouen (Francia) en 1861, Lelarge llegó a Colombia hacia 1890, donde vivió hasta su muerte en Cartagena en 1934, luego de una fructífera carrera que trascendió el ejercicio d...
Mutaciones de la piedra
Mutaciones de la piedra aborda los monumentos conmemorativos y procesos de monumentalización en el país como un objeto de estudio a partir de una triple perspectiva: teórica, historiográfica y legislativa. De esta forma, se espera contribuir a la construcción de una historia cultural de los monumentos colombianos en tiempos en los que las nociones comunes de historia, patrimonio y nación se encuentran en constante debate y redefinición.
Reshaping Urban Conservation
This volume focuses on the implementation of the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL approach), designed to foster the integration of heritage management in regional and urban planning and management, and strengthen the role of heritage in sustainable urban development.Earlier publications and research looked at the underlying theory of why the HUL approach was needed and how this theory was developed and elaborated by UNESCO. A comprehensive analysis was carried out in consultation with a multitude of actors in the twenty-first-century urban scene and with disciplinary approaches that are available to heritage managers and practitioners to implement the HUL appro...
Tenth International Architecture Exhibition
"This two-volume catalogue of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition presents an anthology of ideas centered around this year's theme: the meta-city. The changes in the physical and social structure of today's city have resulted in a new kind of civilian agglomeration that extends beyond the traditional form, concept, and boundaries of the city, causing profound transformations in the composition of its population and working habits. The International Exhibition, curated by Richard Burdett, will focus on the transformations of cities around the world, featuring New York, London, Berlin, Moscow, Tokyo, Shanghai, Mumbai, Mexico City, São Paulo Beirut, Istanbul, Johannesburg, and Lagos. Additionally, the biennale will propound a manifesto for rational development of cities in the 21st century. This book will be the definitive catalogue of what is perhaps the most important architecture exhibition in the world."--Wrapper description.
Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained
Many cities across the globe are rediscovering their rivers. After decades or even centuries of environmental decline and cultural neglect, waterfronts have been vamped up and become focal points of urban life again; hidden and covered streams have been daylighted while restoration projects have returned urban rivers in many places to a supposedly more natural state. This volume traces the complex and winding history of how cities have appropriated, lost, and regained their rivers. But rather than telling a linear story of progress, the chapters of this book highlight the ambivalence of these developments. The four sections in Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained discuss how cities have gained contr...
Bosque Calderón Tejada
La historia del barrio Bosque Calderón Tejada en Bogotá ha estado marcada por las tensiones propias de un barrio visto como ilegal. Pese a que más de cinco generaciones de familias llevan habitando este lugar desde inicios del siglo XX, a lo largo de su trayectoria, el acto de resistencia por parte de sus habitantes ante el posible desalojo y la presión inmobiliaria ha sido una constante. Pero no es solo eso lo que caracteriza al barrio. Su condición de espacio aferrado a las faldas de los cerros Orientales de Chapinero, su ubicación a orillas de la quebrada Las Delicias y el desarrollo de una tradición de organización comunitaria que ha luchado por la búsqueda y garantía de condic...
