La revaloración del patrimonio arquitectónico

Cómo miran los arquitectos, cómo se han construido la mirada aquellos que se estudian y cómo podemos aprender de los mismos confeccionando la nuestra. Ésa es la búsqueda que da forma a este trabajo, teniendo como objetivo primero la arquitectura.

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...

La Habana, la capital de Cuba, tiene el características de cada etapa de la historia de la isla, de sus tradiciones autóctonas de la introducción de la cultura europea en el siglo XV con el desarrollo de la amalgama de estas influencias que es inconfundiblemente cubano. En este volumen, el autor presenta la arquitectura y la historia de La Habana - parte del cual ha sido declarada por la UNESCO Patrimonio de la Humanidad.

Taking as a starting point a design for a mobile theater made at the Architectural Association of London between 1970 and1971 by Spanish architect Javier Navarro de Zuvillaga (born 1942), this book traces the architectural counterculture of that time and the relations with the alternative performing arts. Architect Javier Navarro de Zuvillaga (1942) graduated in 1968 at Madrid School of Architecture. During the academic year 1970-1971 he travelled from Madrid to London thanks to a grant of the British Council to complete his postgraduate training at the Architectural Association. There he...