1st Edition
Adaptive Reuse in Latin America Cultural Identity, Values and Memory
This book seeks to explore the theoretical and architectural connections between memory, values, cultural identity, and adaptive reuse in Latin America. It does so by critically analyzing ideas and works within the context from where they emerge.
With rich and layered historic centers, a wealth of colonial and 19th-century buildings, and the heritage from the modern era, Latin America offers a unique architectural patrimony and its contribution and impact on contemporary culture and architecture still require critical study and discussion. The chapters of this timely book consider the conflicted relationship between colonialism, native cultures, and immigration. It also explores the connections between modern projects and national identity, and contemporary interventions serving the needs of diverse societies while being cultural receptacles of memory. While most books on adaptive reuse focus on the larger general concepts, different technical approaches, and case studies, this book will contribute to the study of adaptive reuse moving away from Europe and North America, focusing instead on cases in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, and Peru.
This book is an important resource for researchers and students in the area of architecture, cultural, global, and design studies, heritage, geography, sociology, and history.
Introduction: expanding and diversifying the field of adaptive reuse
José Bernardi
Topic I Whose memories, whose values? The search for identity
1. Whose memories, whose values? Reflecting on the spatial history of the Americas
Fernando Luiz Lara
2. Open Work as a seed for change in adaptive reuse
Ana Etkin
3. Essential documentation: Lucio Costa and the modernist missionary
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson
4. From modernization to a strategy of community building
Mónica Bertolino
Topic II The Brazilian experience: other modernities
5. Modern housing estates field notes: a meaning for dwelling and sustainability
Ana Paula Koury
6. Preservation and rehabilitation in Brazil: some of São Paulo's cases as a starting point
Marta Silveira Peixoto
7. Adaptive reuse in Brazil: lessons from Lina Bo Bardi
Isabella Leite Trindade and Ana Luisa Rolim
8. Resilient spaces: modern and historic legacy in Brazilian built heritage
Cláudia Costa Cabral
Topic III Perpetual transformations: adaptive reuse in Mexico City
9. The President demolishes, the President buidls: Iconoclasm and architectural space in mid-century Mexico
Cristóbal Jácome-Moreno
10. Exhibiting contemporary art in a colonial context at the Ex Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City
Derek S. Burdette
11. Of ruins and ruination: Infrastructures against the Anthropocene
Christopher T. Morehart
Topic IV Places of defiance and resilience
12. How body memory “actualizes” to the architectural heritage: the Latin American dwelling as the new public space
Diana Maldonado
13. Hidden landscapes of palimpsestic urban memories: the case of Lima/Peru
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz
14. Reversing neo-plantations: from Guayusa monocultures to chakras and managed forests in Mushullakta
Ana Maria Durán Calisto
15. Matachín codex complex
Cristóbal Martínez
Biography
José Bernardi is associate professor in The Design School at The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. His work is focused on modern and contemporary design and architecture in Latin America.
