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Architecture and Nature
The first book of the collection "Latin America: Thoughts" presents a collection of Abilio Guerra's texts that gravitate around a birthmark of modernism in Brazil. At issue is the belief (found in texts, narratives and speeches from 1920-1940) in an alternative modern action – where culture and nature play leading roles – which because of its discursive effectiveness metamorphoses into real features of Brazilian modern architecture.
Structures and Architecture
Although the disciplines of architecture and structural engineering have both experienced their own historical development, their interaction has resulted in many fascinating and delightful structures. To take this interaction to a higher level, there is a need to stimulate the inventive and creative design of architectural structures and to persuade architects and structural engineers to further collaborate in this process, exploiting together new concepts, applications and challenges. This set of book of abstracts and full paper searchable CD-ROM presents selected papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Structures and Architecture Conference (ICSA2016), organized by the Sch...
The "New Man" in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 1919-45
Bringing together an expert group of established and emerging scholars, this book analyses the pervasive myth of the 'new man' in various fascist movements and far-right regimes between 1919 and 1945. Through a series of ground-breaking case studies focusing on countries in Europe, but with additional chapters on Argentina, Brazil and Japan, The "New Man" in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 1919-45 argues that what many national forms of far-right politics understood at the time as a so-called 'anthropological revolution' is essential to understanding this ideology's bio-political, often revolutionary dynamics. It explores how these movements promoted the creation of a new, ideal human, ...
Brazil's Modern Architecture
Brazil's architecture is strikingly distinct from Latin America as a whole and diverse in itself. Yet coverage of the architecture of twentieth-century Brazil is all too often confined to the work of one man (Oscar Niemeyer) or the buildings of two cities (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo). In Brazil's Modern Architecture, a new generation of Brazilian cities and historians sets the record straight, providing a truly comprehensive survey and analysis of twentieth-century Brazilian architecture. This tome embodies a vivid re-interpretation of Brazilian architecture throughout the course of the twentieth century: from the first modern houses of the 1920s and Le Corbusier's seminal visits to the c...
The Point of Being
Current digital processes of production, reproduction and distribution of information affect the perception of time, space, matter, senses and identity. This book explores the research question: what are the psycho-physiological dimensions of the ways people experience their presence in the world and the world’s presence in them? Because they deal principally with issues of perception and sentience, with a particular emphasis on art, there is in all chapters an invitation to experience a shift of perception. An embodied sensation of the world and a re-sensorialization of the environment are described to complement the visually-biased perspective with a renewed sense of humans’ relationsh...
Continuum
The book approaches contemporary design produced in Rio de Janeiro and defined by the authors for its sensual, universal, divergent and unique essence with a selection of with more than 200 decorative objects, images, clothes, jewelry, furniture, utensils and transportation items. Texts by noted designers Bernardo Senna, Frederico Duarte, Ana Videla and Domingos Naveiro.
Beyond the Supersquare
Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism, which developed from a symposium presented by the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2011, showcases original essays by distinguished Latin American architects, historians, and curators whose research examines architecture and urban design practices in the region during a significant period of the twentieth century. Drawing from the exuberant architectural projects of the 1940s to the 1960s, as well as from critically engaged artistic practices of the present day, the essays in this collection reveal how the heroic visions and utopian ideals popular in architectural discourse during the modernist era bore complicated leg...
Tipografía en Latinoamérica
Este libro presenta cómo fue el curso de formación de una cultura tipográfica en los países latinoamericanos. Sus autores resumen un largo y complejo proceso, desde la traumática introducción de la cultura tipográfica europea con sus siglos de desarrollo, al rescate y supervivencia de las culturas nativas y la contribución a un diseño tipográfico en diálogo con el pasado. Se muestra una producción tipográfica latinoamericana multicultural, em dinámica con los aspectos culturales de cada uno de los países a la vez que preservan y absorben sucesivas aproximaciones con otras culturas. Por cuestiones comerciales, religiosas, de tensión social o por imposición política, nuevos códigos y nuevos signos son introducidos en el imaginario y en La comunicación. Así podemos entender que la formación de una identidad tipográfica propia resulta de varios cambios y aproximaciones, en diversos momentos, comenzando con los europeos, asiáticos, árabes, africanos. ES un proceso continuo sin solución de continuidad.
Brasil
"This book brings together 48 works of the new generation of architects who constitute the multifaceted panorama of Brazilian architecture, searching for a contemporary language, in its different expressions, adapted to the real conditions of the country"--Back cover.
