Total Latin American architecture
Subtitle: libretto of modern reflections and contemporary works
By: author: Ana de Brea ; editor: Ricardo Devesa
Contributors: Devesa, Ricardo, 1971- editor
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9781940291475
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Architecture; History; Modern Architecture; Designs and plans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Latin American architecture / Cesar Pelli; title: Foreword : Disparos de aproximación (Reckoning the target / Alfonso Corona Martínez; title: Preliminary part : Checking out unlimitedness / Ana de Brea ; Estética de la estática (The aesthetic of physical laws) / conversation with Mario Roberto Alvarez ; The relation with art / conversation with Clorindo Testa ; Geometry and the clear plan / conversation with Justo Solsona; title: The single family house : X house / Arquitectura X, Ecuador; title: PS house / JPRCR Architects, Colombia; title: MQ house / Roberto Amette, Argentina; title: FyF house / P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, Argentina; title: Tapiales house / Zas Lavarello Architects, Argentina; title: Rolim de Camargo house / MMBB Architects, Brazil; title: DM house / Dellatorre-Oubiña-Shanahan, Argentina; title: CD house / Dellatorre-Shanahan-Valverde, Argentina; title: Bacopari house / Una Arquitetos, Brazil; title: Boaçava house / Una Arquitetos, Brazil; title: Binimelis house / Polidura-Talhouk Architects, Chile; title: Fuica house / Polidura-Talhouk Architects, Chile; title: Entre Muros house / Al Borde, Ecuador; title: Pentimento house / José María Sáez + David Barragán, Ecuador; title: San Juan house / Juán María Sáez + David Barragán, Ecuador; title: House M / Fernando Fritz, Eric Fritz Architects, Argentina; title: N. Rossetti house / Gonzalo Sánchez Hermelo Architects, Argentina; title: Fisherman's house / José Cubilla & Associates, Paraguay; title: Searches on a bigger scale : Jujuy redux, apartment building / P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S + Maxi Spina Architect, Argentina; title: Clay apartment building / Dieguez Fridman Architects & Associates, Argentina; title: Rodas bikes showroom / Gerardo Caballero, Maite Fernández Architects, Argentina ; Sheds and signboards / Juan Manuel Rois, Argentina; title: Brown building / Gerardo Caballero, Maite Fernández Architects, Argentina; title: Office building / Vila Sebastian ARchitects VSA, Argentina; title: Justice Palace / Vila Sebastian Architects VSA, Argentina; Christian Boza D. & José Luis Macchi R., Chile; title: Two parks / Vila Sebastian Architects, VSA, Argentina; Irene Joselevich, Graciela Novoa, Alfredo Garay, Néstor Magariños, Argentina; title: Michelet 550 apartment building / Dellekamp Architects, Mexico; title: To operate and to act / Giancarlo Mazzanti : Bosque La Esperanza, Colombia ; Gerardo Molina School, Colombia ; El Porvenir, Social Kindergarten, Colombia ; Timayui Kindergarten, Colombia ; Invemar building, Colombia ; Puerta de Oro, convention center / Giancarlo Mazzanti + Daniel Bonilla, Colombia; title: Coliseum for the South American Games / Giancarlo Mazzanti + Felipe Mesa, Colombia; title: Poetical structures observed : De la Cruz house / Rafael Iglesia, Argentina; title: Marabajo, four houses / Nicolás Compodónico, Uruguay; title: A pilgrimage to Atlantida / Craig W. Hartman, USA; title: R. Antoñiz house / Marcelo Villafañe, Argentina; title: Tension and release / Diego Petrate, Argentina; title: Synopsis on bricks / Néstor Bottino, USA; title: Parameters / Daniel Bonilla, Colombia; title: Topics under consideration : Does a contemporary Latin American architecture exist? / Ana Fernández, Spain & Holland; title: Constructing interpretations / Alejandro Stöberl, Argentina; title: A detailed logbook by a perplexed architect / Claudio Ferrari, Argentina; title: Intimate public spaces: places to be oneself in the crowd / Julio Arroyo, Argentina; title: Autenticidad o muerte (Authenticity or death) / Mauro Bianucci, Spain & USA; title: Subjective rationalisms / Sergio Forster, Bolivia; title: Estar fuera de la moda (To go out of fashion) / Wes Janz, USA; title: Praça des crianças / Santiago Ciurgeda, Brazil & Spain; title: A perception of territory / Martha Kohen, Uruguay & USA; title: Objects of design and its connection to the architecture space / Ricardo Blanco, Argentina; title: Utopias / Horacio Torcello, Argentina; title: Opera Publica and micro territorial extimacy in Latin America / Claudio Vekstein, USA & Argentina; title: A humanist vision / Noemi Blager, England; title: A look over laboratories : Creative credo / GrupoSP, Brazil; title: Transforming a city / Camilo Restrepo + Miguel Mesa + Luis Callejas, Colombia; title: Orchideorama (exhibition facilities) / plan:b + JPRCR Architects, Colombia; title: San Cristobal Library / Camilo Restrepo + Tres Arquitectura + Masif/Camilo Ramirez, Colombia; title: (Other) five points in architecture / Ana Rascovsky, Argentina; title: String installation (collaborative conversation) / 26.26.26.25 + Ana de Brea, USA & Argentina; title: T-Fabs (experimental academic studios) : Tiuna El Fuerte Cultural Park: model of sustainable micro-urbanism & multipurpose open room ; Replicant surfaces / Alejandro Haiek Coll (Lab.Pro.Fab), Venezuela; title: A physical and social change / Blinder Janches Architects, Argentina; title: Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center / Cristián Fernández Eyzaguirre + Lateral Architecture, Chile; title: The flexible grid (Casas de la Esperanza) / Simon Bussiere + Quilian Riano, Nicaragua & USA; title: To be modern is not long contemporary (Architecture as urban performance) / Carols Campos, Argentina; title: Art and Culture Maya Museum of American in Guatemala / Harry Gugger Studio Ltd + over,under, Switzerland & USA; title: Las Americas: Virtual Design Studio / Antonieta Angulo (Ongoing, international studio exchange) ; USA & South American universities; title: Terrain / landscape / topography : In another world / Rafael Iglesia, Argentina ; House in the countryside / Nicolas Campodónico, Argentina; title: Ayutun Hue House / Roberto Busnelli + Roberto Amette, Argentina; title: Porciuncula de la Milagrosa Chapel / Daniel Bonilla, Colombia; title: Casa O / 01ARQ, Chile; title: Casa W / 01ARQ, Chile; title: Hostel Salto de Penitente / g+ Marcelo Gualano, Martín Gualano Architects, Uruguay; title: Altos de San Antonio Club House / Dutari, Viale Architecture, Argentina; title: House in Rio de Janeiro / Angelo Bucci, SPBR Architects, Brazil; title: House in Rocha / Claudio Ferrari, Uruguay; title: The Desert Workshop / Barclay & Crousse, Peru & France; title: Covering folk factors : Culiacan Botanical Garden / Tatiana Bilbao, Mexico; title: National parks: two projects : Culinary argument / Daniel Miranda, Argentina; title: Boedo Public Square / Castillo-Kogan Architects + Leonardo Cabral, Argentina; title: "El Mangaleta" houses to rent / Marco Rampulla, Argentina; title: The volumetric reasoning (Reviewing physical features) : Ayres Store / Dieguez Fridman Architects & Associates, Argentina; title: 126 house / Fernando Fritz, Eric Fritz, Argentina; title: Soma & space: a skin dilemma / Andrea Saltzman, Argentina; title: Lisboa 7 apartment building / AT103, Mexico; title: Ave Fenix fire station / AT103, Mexico ; Alejandro Hernández, Mexico; title: Nestlé Chocolate Museum / Michel Rojkind, Mexico ; The Red Alebrije, Miquel Adrià, Spain.