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"""Contemporary Architecture in Latin America"" is a new survey of the exciting developments in contemporary architectural practice in Latin America. Although there has been a long history of excellent practice in modern architecture in the region, within the last ten years a new group of dynamic and creative designers have attracted international attention. In the first section of the book, four essays by Latin American scholars offer a reflection on the conditions of architectural production in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Chile, as well as the relations between the design culture in those countries and current international trends. A second section presents a selection of recent, innovative and diverse projects from across the region."

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Author:   Horacio Torrent ,  Fabrizio Gallanti
Publisher:   Phaidon Press Ltd
Imprint:   Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780714857312

ISBN 10:   0714857319
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   June 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction Fabrizio Gallanti and Horacio Torrent COUNTRIES Brasil, Sao Paulo: The Recent Situation Ligia Nobre and Alexandre Cafcalas Mexico: From Chaos to Climate Fernando Canales Made in Colombia: Architecture from the First Years of the Twenty-First Century Hugo Mondragon Recent Architecture in Chile Horacio Torrent PROJECTS Manipulations * Casa Achio, Datum Zero, San Jose, Costa Rica * Casa en los Vilos, Cecilia Puga, Chile * Casa Slice, Procter-Rihl, Porto Alegre, Brasil * Casa Cobre 2, Smiljian Radic, Talca, Chile * Nestle building, Rojkind Arquitectos, Tecamachalco, Mexico Landscape and abstraction * Residencia Juan Carlos Mello, Carla Juacaba, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil * Parador, Salto del Penitente, Gualano y Gualano, Uruguay * Casa Pentimento, Jose Maria Saez & David Barragan, Medellin, Ecuador * Casa en Rio de Janeiro, Angelo Bucci, Brasil Dense dwellings * Amsterdam, Sanchez & Higuera, Mexico * AR 58, Dellekamp Arquitectos, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico * Casa Vertical, Alexia Leon, Lima, Peru * Edificio Jujuy, Marcelo Spina, Rosario, Argentina Invasions in the open * 4 vigas, Solano Benitez, Paraguay * Termas geometricas, German del Sol, Pucon, Chile * Escuela Ns Senora del Carmen, Aparicio Arquitectura, Riberalta, Bolivia * Memorial de los detenidos desaparecidos, Martha Kohen y Ruben Otero, Montevideo, Uruguay * Parque en Puerto Madero / Parque Micaela Bastidas, Marcelo Vila / VSV & Associados, Buenos Aires, Argentina Private Interfaces * Torres siamesas, Alejandro Aravena, Santiago, Chile * Tuenda Llussa Marcenaria, Frentes Arquitectos y Juliana Llussa, Sao Paulo, Brasil * Oficinas Imbursa, Fernando Romero / LAR, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico * Oficinas Contex, 57 Studio, Lampa, Chile * Pabellones de acceso al Luna Park, Rafael Iglesia, Rosario, Argentina * Centro de Control del Parque Tecnologico de Antioquia, Javier Vera, Quirama, Colombia Community Architectures * Espana library park, Giancarlo Mazzanti, Medellin, Colombia * Escuela de Arte, Fuster Arquitectos, Carolina, Puerto Rico * Museo de Microbiologia, Marcio Kogan, Sao Paulo, Brasil * Gimnasio Vertical, Mateo y Matias Pinto Lacoste, Caracas, Venezuela * Mercado San Pablo Oztotepec, Mauricio Rocha, Milpa Alta, Mexico * Centro de rehabilitacion, Claudio Vekstein y Marta Tello, Vicente Lopez, Argentina

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Fabrizio Gallanti trained as an architect at the Universita di Genoa and gained his PhD at the Politectnico di Turin in Italy. He is a founding member of gruppo A12 and was assistant curator at the Triennale di Milano from 1998 to 2001. A recipient of various fellowships, among them Akademie Soliture Fellowship in Stuttgart, Germany and the Canon Research Fellowship oin Tokyo, Japan, he has contributed essays to several publications, such as the Dizionario dell'architettura del XX secolo by Allemandi and publishes regularly in specialized journals. He is currently Proffessor of Architectural Theory at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago. Horacio Torrent trained as an architect at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina. He has held research positions at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, the Getty Institute for the Arts and Humanities in Los Angeles and at the National Gallery of Arts in Washington. He publishes regularly in specialized journals and is Professor of Architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago. Hugo Mondragon is professor at the School of Architecture, University Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, and the head of the Masters program in Architecture at the Escuela de Arquitectura, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. He is an architect and historian, and studied at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago, and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Ligia Nobre is currently a researcher at ETH Studio Basel. She studied architecture at the College of Architecture and Urbanism, Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo and the Architectural Association in London. Nobre co-founded the non-profit cultural organization exo experimental org, a platform for research in the field of art and urbanism in Sao Paulo. Alexandre Cafcalas is an architect, writer and curator who has organized exhibitions and seminars on Brazilian architecture and urbanism including Sao Paulo 300 Millimetres at the Aulario de los Nuevos Ministerios in Madrid, and Learning from Sampa at the Instituto Cervantes de Sao Paulo. He trained at the Arquitectura e Urbanismo de la Universidad de Sao Paulo and the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona, Universidad Politecnica da Cataluna. Fernando Canales is an architect, writer and curator. He trained at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, and the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona, Universidad Politecnica da Cataluna, and the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico. He has published numerous articles in El Pais, Reforma, Architectura Viva, Praxis and El Arqa, among others.

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