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Colombian houses have always been a showcase for the inhabitants of a highly diverse country. These houses range from the haciendas of coffee plantations to the restored colonial homes of Cartagena. Fascinating essays and attractive photos exemplify the evolution of the art of living in Colombia.

Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona has translated pragmatic and poetic concepts and intentions into physical form. These result from the architect's deep communion with and understanding of the materials and processes, as well as of the historic-cultural context in which his architectural intervention takes place. Salmona's oeuvre, including such notable examples as the Torres del Parque (1967) in Bogota, the Presidential House for Illustrious Guests (1981) in Cartagena, the Quimbaya Museum (1983) in Armenia and the National Archive of the Nation (1992) in Bogota, is without doubt one of the ...

Entre 1880 y la primera mitad del siglo XX, la dinámica y optimista ciudad de Buenos Aires, fue el escenario que desarrolló el conjunto arquitectónico de mejor empaque y calidad de Latinoamérica. Sin embargo, ya en 1946, ese agudo ensayista y pensador que fue Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, analiza en "La Cabeza de Goliat", el desproporcionado crecimiento de una ciudad, que fiel a sus fundacionales orígenes comerciales, avanza borrando las huellas de sus pasos, y como demoliendo la arquitectura derriba también su historia, haciendo que arquitectura e historia, en Buenos Aires parezcan...

"CEDODAL in collaboration with the Estrada family organized an exhibition and the present accompanying book that examines the life and professional career of Argentinean architect Estrada. The book gathers various authors who review in their texts the influence German architect Hermann Jansen had over the young Estrada, his integration to the National Forests project (1934) and his legacy in the planning of urban centers, infrastructure works and tourism and hotel architecture particularly in the Patagonian region. Estrada's culmination was the Civic Center of Bariloche, (today historic and...