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In fall 2012, the hardcover edition of this book was released to critical acclaim and received several awards, including the 2013 American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award for its innovative collaborative approach and design. Now available in a smaller, more afford - able paperback edition, Petrochemical America features Richard Misrachs haunting photo-graphic record of Louisianas Chemical Corridor, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff s Ecological Atlasa series of speculative drawings developed through research and mapping of data from the region. Their joint effort...

Twenty-seven countries under the gaze of Jordi Bernado, a photographer who collects the places and landscapes he has lived: some comical, some excessive, some implausible. This vision speaks of a world where life continues to alter each and every element that would initially appear well-ordered. The author's course carries us far and wide, making us his travelling companions, indeed his accomplices in the highly personal vision he constructs. Bernado comes across successively as euridte, historian, architect, sociologist, but most often as storyteller. With a perfect mastery of colour ranges, ...

En palabras de Claudio Rolle, la travesía va dejando vestigios de vida restituida por medio de los objetos, los apuntes, las huellas que, de manera más o menos involuntaria, dejaron esos hombres y mujeres cuya cadena vital se interrumpió al desaparecer sus etnias. Ante tamaña tragedia el silencio parece ser una primera respuesta, un silencio de conmoción y sobrecogimiento, de respeto y de solidaridad con las víctimas de un exterminio. Pero luego emerge con fuerza el imperativo que la historia en cuanto disciplina de conocimiento de la aventura humana en el tiempo y en sociedad nos...