Title: HDM 34: Architectures of Latin America
2011
This issue is dedicated to presenting and analyzing the work and surrounding cultural/political issues of the architectures of Latin America judged to be of most merit and interest by a faculty committee at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Their sense was that much of this work had not yet received sufficient attention and acclaim. They were adamant that the issue in no way imply that Latin American architecture and culture were one kind of thing: in fact, a goal of the magazine is to dispel stereotypes and conventional opinion, to seek for diversity. This is the first time that Harvard Design Magazine has published projects for their own sake, outside the context of a writer’s broad argument. We hope you enjoy this more visual material taking its place among our more familiar critical essays.
Latin American Geographies: A Glance over an Immense Landscape
Anita Berrizbeitia and Romy Hecht Marchant
For a Latin American Architectural Criticism
Jorge Francisco Liernur
Latin American Architecture Today
Iñaki Ábalos
From Paradigm to Paradox: On the Architecture Collectives of Latin America
Ana María Durán Calisto
Taller de Arquitectura X (TAX)
Monte Sinai Synagogue, Mexico
Tatiana Bilbao
Casa Ajijic, Mexico
Mexican Architecture Must Redeem Poor Construction
Alejandro Hernández Gálvez
Ciro Najle
Cummulus_1664, Colorado
The Inner Outside
Ciro Najle
(In)visibility, Poverty, and Cultural Change in South American Cities
Felipe Hernández
Alexia León
Teatina-Quincha Shelter, Peru
Paisajes Emergentes
Aquatic Complex for the IX South American Games, Colombia
Mazzanti Arquitectos and plan:b arquitectos
Sports Coliseums for the IX South American Games, Colombia
Camilo Restrepo Arquitectos
Interfacephyta Multicapacitaceae, Colombia
Post-Disaster Regeneration in Chile: Urgent Responses and Gradual Developments in a Seismic Country
Jorge Heitmann
José Cruz Ovalle and Partners
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Graduate Center, Chile
Teresa Moller & Asociados and FG Arquitectos
Casa Cururo and its Landscape , Chile
Smiljan Radic
Copper House 2, Chile
Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects
Cien House, Chile
Chile, Matter, and Landscape
Fernando Pérez Oyarzún
José María Saez Vaquero and David Barragán
Casa Pentimento, Ecuador
gabinete de arquitectura (Solano Benítez)
Studio, Paraguay
Francisco Cadau
Casa de los Tamices, Argentina
Tomás Saraceno
14 Billions
Puertoricanism, or Living at Ease in the Surface
Miguel Rodríguez Casellas
Enclaves and Counter-Enclaves (in Brazilian Housing, Film, and Art)
Carlos M. Teixeira
SPBR arquitectos
House in Santa Teresa, Brazil
O Avesso Do Avesso: Recent Brazilian Architecture
Ruth Verde Zein
Triptyque
Colombia 325, Brazil
A Projective Space for the South American Hinterland: Resource-Extraction Urbanism
Felipe Correa
Urban Transformation (in Latin America) through Mass Transit
Maria Rubert de Ventós
Landscape in Everything: Lessons from the Valparaíso School
Rodrigo Pérez de Arce
Collaborations between a School and a Continent
Jorge Silvetti
CONJECTURES
What or Who Drives Architectural Design Now? with Preston Scott Cohen, Antón García-Abril, K. Michael Hays, Eelco Hooftman, Bjarke Ingels, Sanford Kwinter, George L. Legendre, Rahul Mehrotra, Toshiko Mori, Mohsen Mostafavi, and William S. Saunders
PORTFOLIO
Three to now, an exhibition of art by Olafur Eliasson; photography by Iwan Baan
BOOKS
Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice
By Eric J. Cesal
Reviewed by Danielle Etzler
Modernism after Wagner
By Juliet Koss
Reviewed by Christopher Long
Perverse Cities: Hidden Subsidies, Wonky Policy, and Urban Sprawl
By Pamela Blais
Reviewed by Matthew J. Kiefer
Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History (1948)
By Sigfried Giedion
Reviewed by Witold Rybczynski
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