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Country Houses
The innovative architectural styles that have emerged from the various climates of the Colombian landscape are presented through this collection of insightful essays and spectacular complementary photography. Over 300 locations in Colombia fill the three sections based on climate zones: hot weather, warm weather, and cold weather. As the creativity of traditional and emerging Colombian architects is revealed, so too is the stunning landscape of the country whose varying climate and indigenous materials -- such as guadua, a local bamboo -- have influenced Colombian architectural form and content, respectively. ALSO AVAILABLE IN SPANISH -- CASA DE RECREO EN COLOMBIA (9588156688/9789588156682).
Los lugares habitados
Un libro que se acerca a la memoria a través de la palabra y la imagen. En él se reconstruye una vida a partir de capturas sobre la arquitectura, el arte, los viajes, la ciudad y la casa. En palabras de su autor, «está concebido como una serie de instantáneas, en homenaje a una primera cámara —una Brownie Fiesta de Kodak—, lo más parecido a una cámara oscura elemental, primaria. Estas instantáneas son fragmentos de la existencia. Este libro es un fragmento de fragmentos. La vida continúa». Lanzado en 2010, fue el primer libro de narrativa en el catálogo de Laguna Libros. Ahora vuelve a publicarse en la colección Laguna Clásica. Coedición digital Laguna Libros - eLibros.
Luis Restrepo
Luis Restrepo, an architect from Bogot, believes that people are the prime axis of space. As a result, whether designing a warehouse or a cozy house in the Savannah of Bogot, his novel constructions are based on the concepts of livability and well-being.
Luis Restrepo
An in-depth study of Colombian architect Luis Restrepo, this collection brings together a selection of his constructions developed by between 1989 and 2007. In this innovative presentation of architectural works, each construction is thoroughly illustrated with both color photographs and reproductions of the blueprints, making it a true insight into Restrepo’s genius. Escaping classification, his works restore the essentials of architecture—space, materials, and light—and this compilation is sure to appeal to enthusiasts of both architecture and design.
Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events
Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America’s great cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there. The avenues and plazas of Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotaì, SaÞo Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires have been the backdrop for extraordinary, history-making events. While some argue that public spaces are a prerequisite for the expression, representation and reinforcement of democracy, they can equally be used in the pursuit of totalitarianism. Indeed, public spaces, in both the past and present, have been the site for the contestation by ordinary people of various stances on democracy and citizenship. By exploring the use and meaning of public spaces in Latin American cities, this book sheds light on contemporary definitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas.
Casa Moderna
The past half-century of domestic architecture in Colombia involves the works of Rogelio Salmona, Dicken Castro, Hernán Vieco, and Fernando Martínez Sanabria, creators who have given unique identities to their interpretations of the modern home. This tribute reveals the challenges they faced and their remarkable solutions: houses which blend functionalism, creativity, and simplicity in the forging of spaces which are a pleasure to inhabit.
Music, Race, and Nation
Long a favorite on dance floors in Latin America, the porro, cumbia, and vallenato styles that make up Colombia's música tropical are now enjoying international success. How did this music—which has its roots in a black, marginal region of the country—manage, from the 1940s onward, to become so popular in a nation that had prided itself on its white heritage? Peter Wade explores the history of música tropical, analyzing its rise in the context of the development of the broadcast media, rapid urbanization, and regional struggles for power. Using archival sources and oral histories, Wade shows how big band renditions of cumbia and porro in the 1940s and 1950s suggested both old traditions and new liberties, especially for women, speaking to a deeply rooted image of black music as sensuous. Recently, nostalgic, "whitened" versions of música tropical have gained popularity as part of government-sponsored multiculturalism. Wade's fresh look at the way music transforms and is transformed by ideologies of race, nation, sexuality, tradition, and modernity is the first book-length study of Colombian popular music.
Habitat y arquitectura en Colombia
Las comunidades humanas habitan en lugares definidos geográfica y arquitectónicamente. La geografía provee los recintos naturales que sirven como soporte para la construcción de aquello que es necesario para la supervivencia material e intelectual de un grupo humano, guiada por la mentalidad propia de un mundo cultural al cual a su vez orienta para su consolidación y expansión. La arquitectura, en la dimensión cultural, es una actividad cargada de significados. Un territorio, una ciudad y una edificación representan un modo de habitar, un modo de ordenar el espacio habitable, un modo de construir y uno o muchos modos de pensar. Habitar es una condición inherente a la existencia huma...
Latin American Modern Architectures
Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region’s rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that have not been written about in English. A foreword by historian Kenneth Frampton sets the stage for essays on well-known architects, such as Lucio Costa and Félix Candela, which will show you unfamiliar aspects of their work, and for essays on the work of little-known figures, such as Uruguayan architect Carlos Gómez Gavazzo and Peruvian architect and politician Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Covering urban and territorial histories from the n...
