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Arthur Erickson
At long last, here is a book of critical thought that analyzes Arthur Erickson's best work and situates it as a distinctive body of ideas within the mainstream of international architecture in the last half of the twentieth century. Nicholas Olsberg draws on Erickson's own discussion of ideas to present a thoughtful and illuminating reassessment of his most important work. Ricardo Castro's photography captures essential passages of the works as they have matured into their settings. Archival photographs, study models, drawings and plans show how the designs were evolved and their intent conveyed. Essays from Edward Dimendberg, Laurent Stalder and Georges Teyssot add an international and critical context. This book was published in partnership with the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Rogelio Salmona
Complementing and advancing Ricardo L. Castro’s first study of the famous Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona, this in-depth reference presents a dozen of the most significant pieces from the last decade. Capturing his characteristic use of red brick and the employment of natural shapes in his designs, this stunning tribute to an extraordinary man and architectural legacy includes information and analysis of each work as well as pictures, sketches, and layout plans. Such famed works as the Human Sciences Postgraduate Studies Building at the National University–Bogotá, the Virgilio Barco Library in Bogotá, the Gabriel García Márquez Cultural Center, and his vacation home in Riofrío are all highlighted.
Curricular and Architectural Encounters with W.G. Sebald
This book engages with the writings of W.G. Sebald, mediated by perspectives drawn from curriculum and architecture, to explore the theme of unsettling complacency and confront difficult knowledge around trauma, discrimination and destruction. Moving beyond overly instrumentalist and reductive approaches, the authors combine disciplines in a scholarly fashion to encourage readers to stretch their understandings of currere. The chapters exemplify important, timely and complicated conversations centred on ethical response and responsibility, in order to imagine a more just and aesthetically experienced world. In the analysis of BILDUNG as human formation, the book illuminates the pertinent les...
A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Montreal
A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture of Montreal showcases 65 important, and in some cases award-winning, buildings in this vibrant city. These are structures that have changed how architecture is thought of in Montreal, inpired transformations in neighborhoods around them, used materials innovatively, or been built with notable economy. A two-page spread covers each project, with a concise descriptive text alongside photos, drawings, and floor plans. Each building is presented by quarter or neighborhood, encouraging readers to develop their own self-guided walking tours. The front and back flaps fold out into maps to guide visitors through the highlighted quartiers.
Syndesis III
In this edition of Síndesis III, Professor Eduardo Aquino has been linked to the project, with a chapter in which he develops an original proposal about an environmental condition, not necessarily related to the beach as such, in a literal geographic sense, but conceived as a qualitative public space and a place for creative leisure, so necessary for a contemporary society. Ricardo L. Castro returns to this series with an essay in which, during an annual personal pilgrimage, he launches a syndicated look from Delphi. There he finds countless relationships with his experiences of the Chapel of Brother Klaus designed by Peter Zumthor in southern Cologne, Germany. The physical experience, the ...
The Ibero-American Baroque
The Ibero-American Baroque is an interdisciplinary, empirically-grounded contribution to the understanding of cultural exchanges in the early modern Iberian world.
Transculturation
Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America explores the critical potential inherent in the notion of “transculturation” in order to understand contemporary architectural practices and their cultural realities in Latin America.Despite its enormous theoretical potential and its importance within Latin American cultural theory, the term transculturation had never permeated into architectural debates. In fact, none of the main architectural theories produced in and about Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century engaged seriously with this notion as a way to analyze the complex social, cultural and political circumstances that affect the developme...
Chora 3
The thirteen essays in this collection include historical subjects as well as speculative theoretical "projects" that blur conventional boundaries between history and fiction. Ricardo Castro provides an original reading of the Kogi culture in Colombia; Maria Karvouni explores philological and architectonic connections between the Greek demas (the political individual) and domus (the house); Mark Rozahegy speculates on relationships between architecture and memory; Myriam Blais discusses technical inventions by sixteenth-century French architect Philibert de l'Orme; Alberto Pérez-Gómez examines the late sixteenth-century reconstruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by Juan Bautista Villalpando...
The Sound of Architecture
How sound and its atmospheres transform architecture Acoustic atmospheres can be fleeting, elusive, or short-lived. Sometimes they are constant, but more often they change from one moment to the next, forming distinct impressions each time we visit certain places. Stable or dynamic, acoustic atmospheres have a powerful effect on our spatial experience, sometimes even more so than architecture itself. This book explores the acoustic atmospheres of diverse architectural environments, in terms of scale, program, location, or historic period—providing an overview of how acoustic atmospheres are created, perceived, experienced, and visualized. The contributors explore how sound and its atmosphe...
Chora 5
Provocative views on why architecture matters offer vital information for developing a richer architecture.
