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Adaptive Reuse in Latin America: Cultural Identity, Values and Memory book cover

1st Edition

Adaptive Reuse in Latin America Cultural Identity, Values and Memory

Edited By José Bernardi Copyright 2024
268 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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.

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