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Caribbean Modernist Architecture
In February and March 2008, the International Program and the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art organised the Museum's first symposium on the modernist architecture of the Caribbean and bordering Latin American countries, in collaboration with the Caribbean School of Architecture at the University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica. The goal was to encourage scholarly, curatorial and broader educational awareness. Topics covered included regional and international legacies, preservation, environmental sustainability and urban planning, as they relate to modernist architectural history and contemporary practice. The presenters were leading architects and architec...
The Slum and the City
The Argentine capital is largely perceived as a middle-class space. Yet in reality, urban poverty and precarious settlements are defining features of the city. Agnese Codebò investigates how slums have produced culture as well as their representation in literature and the visual arts from the 1950s to the present. Looking at government-led urban projects, as well as novels, artworks, films, militant magazines, poems, and music, she tells the story of how villas miseria have mattered culturally and socially as spaces that produce new aesthetics, cultural trends, and social alliances, while offering a vantage point to understand the city and its problems. Slums represent a heterogeneous urban space, and Codebò makes the case for their relevance in Argentine culture, demonstrates the need to rethink spaces of production, and develops a new premise for a decolonial approach to Argentine cultural production.
Colonial Urbanism in the Age of the Enlightenment
This book tells the story of how the monarchy aimed at creating a new capital city in a remote and forgotten area of the empire. It also shows how the local Creole bourgeoisie rapidly assumed the role of urban developers, and enhanced their economic status by investing in and controlling the Buenos Aires’ property market. In a short period, from 1776 to 1810, the urban transformation of Buenos Aires helped increase the Crown’s revenues and considerably reduced contraband trade. Nevertheless, urban changes generated an internal struggle for power for the control of the city between the Spanish loyalist and the local wealthier Creoles. As this book concludes, for an empire such as the Spanish, which was built upon a network of cities, the Crown’s loss of the control of Buenos Aires’ urban space was a serious threat to its power that foreshadowed Argentina’s wars of independence.
Sound, Image, and National Imaginary in the Construction of Latin/o American Identities
Sound, Image, and National Imaginary in the Construction of Latin/o American Identities addresses a gap in the many narratives discussing the cultural histories of Latin American nations, particularly in terms of the birth, configuration, and perpetuation of national identities. It argues that these processes were not as gradual or constrained as traditionally conceived. The actual circumstances dictating the adoption of particular technologies for the representation of national ideas shifted and varied according to many factors including local circumstances, political singularities, economic disparities, and highly individualized cultural transitions. This book proposes a model of chronology that is valid not only for nations that underwent strong processes of nationalism during the early or mid-twentieth century, but also for those that experienced highly idiosyncratic cultural, economic, and political development into the early twenty-first century.
The Grid and the Park
Since its publication in Spanish in 1998, The Grid and the Park not only revitalized studies on the history of Buenos Aires, but also laid the foundation for a specific type of cultural work on the city —an urban perspective for cultural history, as its author would describe it— that has had a sustained impact in Latin America. Public space, embodied in the grid of city blocks and the park system, here appears as a particularly productive category because it encompasses dimensions of the material city, politics, and culture, which are usually studied separately. From Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s figurations of Palermo Park in the mid-nineteenth century to Jorge Luis Borges’s discovery of the suburb in the 1920s; from the modernization of the traditional center carried out by Mayor Torcuato de Alvear in the 1880s to the questioning of that centrality by the emergence of the suburban barrio, the book weaves the changing ideas on public space with urban culture to produce a new history of the metropolitan expansion of Buenos Aires, one of the most extensive and dynamic urban centers of the early twentieth century.
Buenos Aires, la ciudad y sus sitios
Un 10 de abril de 1981 comenzaron a publicarse estas críticas, primero fueron planteos donde la ciudad era mostrada en sus sectores diferenciados, luego apareció el edificio como entidad juzgada. Para nuestro solaz, curiosidad o develación urbanística, estos incansables excursionistas han husmeado cuanto patio de conventillo, monumento, esquina, pizzería o musa de arrabal hubieron encontrado en sus entrañables yirajes. Lo que los nuevos aguafuertistas descubren en estos sitios, trasciende la mera descripción de los lugares, para hurgar en los rituales, mitos, personajes, huellas dejadas por Gardel o Frank Sinatra, Quinquela o Gombrowicz, el astrólogo Schultze o Samuel Tesler. Los aut...
Arquitectura en Portugal
¿Por qué Arquitectura en Portugal?. La rápida evolución en los últimos años, desde la diversidad de culturas locales, hacia prototipos globales de referentes epistemológicos metabólicos, hace prever importantes cambios que ya se dejan notar en la arquitectura. Portugal, por su dimensión y su peculiar repertorio de características culturales, políticas y geográficas, constituye un referente de gran valor paradigmático en la mutación de la arquitectura del siglo XXI.
Ciudades (in)descifrables
Aventurarse en la tarea de comprender la complejidad creciente de la vida urbana requiere, necesariamente, nuevos abordajes transversales y disruptivos. El tratamiento de la ciudad desde los imaginarios y representaciones sociales de lo urbano constituye una postura teórica y metodológica, la cual permite identificar y descifrar las predisposiciones a la reproducción y las tendencias que anuncian formas de producción innovadoras de la ciudad y la vida urbana.
Tango siglo XXI
Este libro consagrado a las relaciones entre el tango, la subjetividad y la sociedad aborda particularmente el análisis entre la singularidad artística del género como síntesis sociocultural prefiguradora de relaciones sociales y políticas. Parte de la presuposición de que el tango no solamente posee una historia sino también una historia espectacularizada que se manifestó mediante símbolos e imágenes que enmarcaron aspectos relevantes de la vida cotidiana y la cultura política nacional. Durante las últimas décadas tuvo lugar un resurgimiento del tango, fundamentalmente por medio del baile que se constituyó en un lugar de encuentro y de expresión cultural de relaciones sociale...
