Arquitectura moderna en Bogotá

Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona has translated pragmatic and poetic concepts and intentions into physical form. These result from the architect's deep communion with and understanding of the materials and processes, as well as of the historic-cultural context in which his architectural intervention takes place. Salmona's oeuvre, including such notable examples as the Torres del Parque (1967) in Bogota, the Presidential House for Illustrious Guests (1981) in Cartagena, the Quimbaya Museum (1983) in Armenia and the National Archive of the Nation (1992) in Bogota, is without doubt one of the ...

Cecilia Puga belongs, along with Smiljan Radic, Alejandro Aravena and Pezo von Ellrichshausen, to a new generation of Chilean architects who from their peripheral situation address concerns that are very much in keeping with certain avenues explored by European architecture. This issue of 2G brings together seventeen buildings and projects by the Chilean architect, including the exemplary House in Bah’a Azul, in which the classic icon of the section of a house - the outline any child might draw - is manipulated, pivoted and transformed to produce a sense of strangeness in relation to its...

Este libro trata de un conjunto de ciudades surgidas como colonias de la gesta "gringa" del oeste santafesino durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, con identidades claramente identificables según fueran la poblaciones que las habitaran y el contexto en el que se asentaran. Asimismo, trata del estudio de la relación entre aquellas idiosincrasias y los cambios en la manera de habitar derivados de la globalización. El interés de este equipo de investigación es rescatar y valorar las características de estas poblaciones como un modo de fortalecer su "estar el en mundo", sin dejar de...

Ya está aquí la Edición de Aniversario de Crónicas de Banqueta "La Revista", correspondiente al mes de Junio 2023. Disfrútala.