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Introduction, Horacio Torrent
The remarkably prolific career of an innovative young Chilean architect is profiled in this engaging study. Born in 1965 and in professional practice since 1991, this architect's impact on his native landscape is observed mainly in a series of private houses located in some of the most sublime sites in Chile. The forceful yet austere character of his design approach and its radical relationship to surrounding landscape elements can be fully appreciated by viewing this book's fine pictorial panorama.
Radical Pedagogies
Experiments in architectural education in the post–World War II era that challenged and transformed architectural discourse and practice. In the decades after World War II, new forms of learning transformed architectural education. These radical experiments sought to upend disciplinary foundations and conventional assumptions about the nature of architecture as much as they challenged modernist and colonial norms, decentered building, imagined new roles for the architect, and envisioned participatory forms of practice. Although many of the experimental programs were subsequently abandoned, terminated, or assimilated, they nevertheless helped shape and in some sense define architectural dis...
The Challenge of Change
Conservation of architecture - and the conversation of Modern architecture in particular - has assumed new challenges. Rather than attempting to return a Modern building to its resumed original state, the challenge of these proceedings is to revalue the essence of the manifold manifestations of Modern architecture and redefine its meanings in a rapidly changing world of digital revolution, worldwide mobility and environmental awareness. This volume aims to provide a variety of platforms for the exchange of ideas and experience. A large, international group of architects, historians, scholars, preservationists and other parties involved in the processes of preserving, renovating and transform...
Mathias Klotz
Since first starting his practice in the late 1980s, the Santiago-based architect Mathias Klotz (b. 1965) has designed buildings from Chile to China that combine Modernist inspiration with local construction techniques. Having won the Borromini prize for best architect under forty in 2001, Klotz has gone from being known in his native Chile for a series of award-winning single-family residences to larger, more challenging projects--including university buildings, military housing, and commercial properties that expand his architectural vision into the international realm.
Modern Architecture in Latin America
Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that represent the complex processes of political, economic, and cultural modernization in the twentieth century. The number and types of projects varied greatly from country to country, but, as a whole, the region produced a significant body of architecture that has never before been presented in a single volume in any language. Modern Architecture in Latin America is the first comprehensive history of this important production. Designed as a survey and focused on key examples/paradigms arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this volume covers a myriad of countri...
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Atlas de lo ordinario Chile/Brasil
En 1966 Hélio Oiticica construyó una estructura penetrable con el título "Pureza es un mito" con el fin de, para criticar la obsesión de las artes y principalmente de la historia del arte con la elección de algunos objetos como expresión pura de un estilo, mientras que todos los demás serían por exclusión impuros. La historia de la arquitectura no es diferente y algunos libros recientes explicitan los orígenes racistas de la idea de estilo en la teoría de la arquitectura a partir del siglo XIX. Me parece fundamental revisar el concepto de “ordinario” que sirve de marco a este libro. Ordinario proviene del latín ordinarius, ordenado, organizado. ¿Por qué entonces nuestra pro...
Chilean Modern Architecture Since 1950
Chilean architecture--along with that of Sao Paolo and Mexico City--sets a benchmark for the intersection of modernism with vernacular influences in Latin America. Culture, landscape, and the geology of this earthquake-prone region have all served as important filters for the practice of post-1950s design in Chile. This volume introduces the modern architecture of Chile to readers in the United States. Looking primarily at domestic architecture as a lens for studying the larger movement, Fernando Perez Oyarzun considers the relationship between theory and practice in Chile. As he shows in his chapter, during the early 1950s the School of Valparaiso offered the possibility of developing exper...
Arquitectos iberoamericanos, siglo XXI
"Major survey of Ibero-American 21st century architects details the work of 40 architects"--Provided by vendor.
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