Documentos de arquitectura moderna en América Latina 1950-1965

"CEDODAL in collaboration with the Estrada family organized an exhibition and the present accompanying book that examines the life and professional career of Argentinean architect Estrada. The book gathers various authors who review in their texts the influence German architect Hermann Jansen had over the young Estrada, his integration to the National Forests project (1934) and his legacy in the planning of urban centers, infrastructure works and tourism and hotel architecture particularly in the Patagonian region. Estrada's culmination was the Civic Center of Bariloche, (today historic and...

The book is the resulting papers from the Seminars of Latin American Architecture (SAL) organized by CEDODAL as an example of academic cooperation between Latin American architects who share their concern for the conservation of the region's architectural patrimony. This edition comprises case studies and historical, economic, social and architectural analysis of the farms and landowners of the haciendas and estancias from 7 countries of Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, México, Perú and Puerto Rico.

El presente libro cumple con la aspiración de un grupo de docentes que dicta cursos de Historia del Arte en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Poder acercar al lector en general y a aquéllos que siguen desde hace ya muchos años sus conferencias, formas diferentes de interpretar el arte. Sólo la observación detenida de la obra, sus vínculos con la época en que la misma se generó, nos permiten descubrir el real sentido del arte, no solamente como una forma de entender el mundo sino como una sólida fuente de conocimientos históricos. La Asociación para la Difusión del Arte (APDA),...

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