Main entry:

Brea, Ana de, author.

Title & Author:

Total Latin American architecture : libretto of modern reflections and contemporary works / author: Ana de Brea ; editor: Ricardo Devesa.

Publication:

New York : Actar Publishers, 2016.
©2015

Description:

431 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 24 cm

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

ISBN:

9781940291475 (paperback)
194029147X (paperback)

Subject:

Lateinamerika
Architecture Latin America 21st century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Designs and plans.
Architecture 21e siècle Dessins et plans.
Architecture.
Architecture, Modern.
Architektur
Latin America.
Südamerika
Mittelamerika

Form/genre:

Designs and plans.
architectural drawings (visual works)
Architectural drawings.
Dessins d'architecture.

Added entries:

Devesa, Ricardo, 1971- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293448
Call No.: BIB 238403
Status: Available