Escuchar y transformar la ciudad

Xavier Bordils (Castelló, 1939) has stood out for his contributions to promote and spread design, graphic design and packaging, as well as for his intense projectual activity. Convictions and preferences are summarised in the text that goes with his mark: ¿Xavier Bordils: anti-stylist design, graphic design, structural design, global design, utilitary design, industrial product design, sematic design, architectural design, design, blah, blah, blah.¿

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...

Diseñar un paisaje urbano-arquitectónico es construir una escena a partir de una imagen (en la forma de prefiguración). Una mirada proyectual implica una posición desde la cual se aborda el proyecto con un determinado andamiaje instrumental, que se traduce en imágenes fijas o secuenciales. Este libro propone descubrir en el área de la morfología arquitectural, nuevas modalidades de diseño empleando herramientas digitales y analógicas. La información contenida rescata ejemplos y conceptos, de la cultural disciplinar, además de generar vínculos con múltiples disciplinas, entre...

The book is the resulting papers from the Seminars of Latin American Architecture (SAL) organized by CEDODAL as an example of academic cooperation between Latin American architects who share their concern for the conservation of the region's architectural patrimony. This edition comprises case studies and historical, economic, social and architectural analysis of the farms and landowners of the haciendas and estancias from 7 countries of Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, México, Perú and Puerto Rico.