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El fin del reino de lo propio

Autor: María Isabel Quiñones Arocho

Número de Páginas: 161

El proyecto antropológico se ha modificado a partir de una premisa básica: las personas y los lugares se han transformado debido a que las fronteras entre el "aquí" y el "allá" se hacen cada día más difusas. La antropología ya no puede apropiarse del viaje como recurso y metáfora en un mundo donde ahora se navega en los mares cibernéticos. La certeza del Otro habitando un tiempo y un espacio diferenciado se desvanece. Es necesario entonces hacer una recuperación de la diferencia, ya no como exterioridad sino como lo otro que nos habita. Tal vez sea la única manera de no exotizar al Otro --real o imaginado-- que hoy vive entre nosotros. Este ensayo explora la posibilidad de una recuperación de la diferencia como aquello que actúa desde adentro en un territorio definido como propio. Y donde además, el territorio es una ilusión que nos hace existir en un "no lugar". Espacio nuevo del trabajo antropológico.

La mer Caraïbe, espace de migrations

Autor: Michèle Dalmace

Número de Páginas: 382

La mer Caraïbe, qui sépare et réunit, est un espace privilégié, au cœur de toutes les problématiques de la région. Cet ouvrage analyse la place qu’elle occupe dans l’histoire ainsi que dans la littérature et les arts. Espace mythique, quel ascendant exerce- t-elle dans les imaginaires ? D’un point de vue géopolitique, quelles pertes ont engendrées les flux de population qui l’ont parcourue et la traversent encore ? Quels apports a-t-elle favorisés en matière de cultures ? Ces pages réunissent des spécialistes reconnus de la Caraïbe insulaire et continentale qui se sont interrogés sur les phénomènes de pertes et de résistances, les reconfigurations et la créolisation qu’a provoquées la mer Caraïbe, berceau du Nouveau Monde, offrant au lecteur des approches complémentaires au travers d’un ample espace-temps, de la période coloniale à nos jours.

Ton coeur a la forme d'une île

Autor: Laure Limongi

Número de Páginas: 210

« Ce sentiment d’appartenance comme un joyau et une blessure, de celles qui viennent de loin. De générations humiliées, de populations déplacées, massacrées. Je suis corse, sò corsa, je le clame, je le chante, je le soupire. Je le porte en étendard, en œillères, parfois, en mot d’amour, toujours. C’est ce qui me constitue, ma colonne vertébrale, ne faisant pas l’économie des clichés : brune, petit format, traits à la serpe, yeux noirs, souvent vêtue de noir, caractère trempé. Quelle est la part de la génétique et celle de l’effort à coller à l’image du mythe ? » Être ou ne pas être Corse, telle est la question posée dans cet objet littéraire pluriel – comme peut l’être la définition d’une identité. Après On ne peut pas tenir la mer entre ses mains, Laure Limongi aborde son lien avec cette île à la culture si singulière, en mêlant histoire, entretiens, fiction et passages autobiographiques. Enquêtes personnelle et collective se superposent pour illustrer le ressenti des Corses insulaires et de ceux de la diaspora quant à leurs racines, leur langue, leur culture, leur perception des poncifs sur l’île : ils sont à double...

Beyond the Supersquare

Autor: Antonio Sergio Bessa

Número de Páginas: 397

Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism, which developed from a symposium presented by the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2011, showcases original essays by distinguished Latin American architects, historians, and curators whose research examines architecture and urban design practices in the region during a significant period of the twentieth century. Drawing from the exuberant architectural projects of the 1940s to the 1960s, as well as from critically engaged artistic practices of the present day, the essays in this collection reveal how the heroic visions and utopian ideals popular in architectural discourse during the modernist era bore complicated legacies for Latin America—the consequences of which are evident in the vastly uneven economic conditions and socially disparate societies found throughout the region today. The innovative contributions in this volume address how the modernist movement came into being in Latin America and compellingly explore how it continues to resonate in today’s cultural discourse. Beyond the Supersquare takes themes traditionally examined within the strict field of urbanism and architecture and explores...

Acoso y ocaso de una ciudad

Autor: Yolanda Izquierdo

Número de Páginas: 280

El agricultor puertorriqueño

Número de Páginas: 482

Las vanguardias en Puerto Rico

Autor: Amarilis Carrero Peña , Carmen M. Rivera Villegas

Número de Páginas: 464

Caribbean Modernist Architecture

Autor: Gustavo Luis Moré

Número de Páginas: 214

In February and March 2008, the International Program and the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art organised the Museum's first symposium on the modernist architecture of the Caribbean and bordering Latin American countries, in collaboration with the Caribbean School of Architecture at the University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica. The goal was to encourage scholarly, curatorial and broader educational awareness. Topics covered included regional and international legacies, preservation, environmental sustainability and urban planning, as they relate to modernist architectural history and contemporary practice. The presenters were leading architects and architectural historians from the region, and attendees included their colleagues as well as local and international university students, policy makers, civic leaders and developers from Jamaica, the surrounding Caribbean isalnds and the United States. This illustrated volume, co-published by MoMA and Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana (AAA), an architectural journal based in the Dominican Republic, presents the papers from this critical symposium in both English and Spanish, making them accessible to...

State Administrative Officials Classified by Functions

Número de Páginas: 216

Almanac of Architecture & Design, 2005

Autor: James P. Cramer

Número de Páginas: 788

Modern Architecture in Latin America

Autor: Luis E. Carranza , Fernando Luiz Lara

Número de Páginas: 425

Designed as a survey and focused on key examples and movements arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this is the first comprehensive history of modern architecture in Latin America in any language. Runner-up, University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Award, 2015 Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that represent the complex processes of political, economic, and cultural modernization in the twentieth century. The number and types of projects varied greatly from country to country, but, as a whole, the region produced a significant body of architecture that has never before been presented in a single volume in any language. Modern Architecture in Latin America is the first comprehensive history of this important production. Designed as a survey and focused on key examples/paradigms arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this volume covers a myriad of countries; historical, social, and political conditions; and projects/developments that range from small houses to urban plans to architectural movements. The book is structured so that it can be read in a variety of ways—as a...

Information 2000

Autor: White House Conference On Library And Information Services , United States. National Commission On Libraries And Information Science , White House Conference On Library And Information Services (1991 : Washington, D.c.)

Número de Páginas: 88

This summary report addresses the information needs of American citizens, institutions, schools, industry, and government within the context of three themes: literacy, democracy, and productivity. The report includes a preamble, which provides background information on the conference; discussions of the challenges posed by the Information Age in each of the three theme areas; a summary of the highlights of the delegates' recommendations; and the 15 recommendations earmarked for priority action by an early vote of the conference delegates. The recommendations cover the following issues: availability and access to information; national information policies; information networks through technology; structure and governance; services for diverse needs; training to reach end users; personnel and staff development; preservation of information; and marketing to communities. It is suggested that these initiatives collectively provide a blueprint for ways in which the United States can move from a nation at risk to a nation of students and restore our international preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation. Also included in the report are the mission...

Memoir

Autor: Rosario Ferré

Número de Páginas: 131

Memoir is Rosario Ferré’s account of her life both as a writer and as a member of a family at the center of the economic and political history of Puerto Rico during the American Century, one hundred years of territorial “non-incorporation” into the United States. The autobiography tells the story of Ferré’s transformation from the daughter of a privileged family into a celebrated novelist, poet, and essayist concerned with the welfare of Puerto Ricans, and with the difficulties of being a woman in Puerto Rican society. It is a snapshot of twentieth-century Puerto Rico through the lens of a writer profoundly aware of her social position. It is a picture taken from the perspective of a keen observer of the local history of the island, and of the history of the United States. Included are many photographs that connect Ferré’s life with the story of her writing career.

Histories of Architecture Education in the United States

Autor: Peter L. Laurence

Número de Páginas: 405

Histories of Architecture Education in the United States is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring pedagogical approaches, and leading institutions of American architecture education. Beginning with the emergence of architecture as a profession in Philadelphia and ending with the early work, but unfinished international effort, of making room for women and people of color in positions of leadership in the field, this collection offers an important history of architecture education relevant to audiences both within and outside of the United States. Other themes include the relationship of professional organizations to educational institutions; the legacy of late nineteenth-century design concepts; the role of architectural history; educational changes and trans-Atlantic intellectual exchanges after WWII and the Cold War; the rise of the city and urban design in the architect’s consciousness; student protests and challenges to traditional architecture education; and the controversial appearance of environmental activism. This collection, in other words, provides a relevant history of the present, with topics of concern to all...

Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2010

Autor: United States. Congress. House. Committee On Appropriations. Subcommittee On Commerce, Justice, Science, And Related Agencies

Número de Páginas: 998

Dictator's Dreamscape

Autor: Joseph R. Hartman

Número de Páginas: 369

Joseph Hartman focuses on the public works campaign of Cuban president, and later dictator, Gerardo Machado. Political histories often condemn Machado as a US-puppet dictator, overthrown in a labor revolt and popular revolution in 1933. Architectural histories tend to catalogue his regime’s public works as derivatives of US and European models. Dictator’s Dreamscape reassesses the regime’s public works program as a highly nuanced visual project embedded in centuries-old representations of Cuba alongside wider debates on the nature of art and architecture in general, especially in regards to globalization and the spread of US-style consumerism. The cultural production overseen by Machado gives a fresh and greatly broadened perspective on his regime’s accomplishments, failures, and crimes. The book addresses the regime’s architectural program as a visual and architectonic response to debates over Cuban national identity, US imperialism, and Machado’s own cult of personality.

Topographical Stories

Autor: David Leatherbarrow

Número de Páginas: 296

Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, one field. Others maintain that the disciplines are distinct. These designations are a subject of continual debate by theorists and practitioners alike. Here, David Leatherbarrow offers an entirely new way of thinking of architecture and landscape architecture. Moving beyond partisan arguments, he shows how the two disciplines rely upon one another to form a single framework of cultural meaning. Leatherbarrow redefines landscape architecture and architecture as topographical arts, the shared task of which is to accommodate and express the patterns of our lives. Topography, in his view, incorporates terrain, built and unbuilt, but also traces of practical affairs, by means of which culture preserves and renews its typical situations and institutions. This rigorous argument is supported by nearly 100 illustrations, as well as examples of topography from the sixteenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, through the heroic period of early modernism, to more recent offerings. A number of these studies revise existing accounts of decisive...

Miracles in Concrete

Autor: Estonian Museum Of Architecture

Número de Páginas: 432

The first comprehensive tribute to Louis Kahn's and Moshe Safdie's structural engineer The Estonian-American civil engineer August Komendant (1906–1992) worked with numerous famous architects and engineers on several of the 20th century’s most iconic buildings. Concrete was Komendant’s passion through decades. He used his expertise in designing structures as different as the Kadriorg Stadium grandstand in Tallinn, Estonia (Elmar Lohk, 1938), the Habitat ’67 experimental housing complex in Montréal, Canada (Moshe Safdie, 1967) and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, USA (Louis I. Kahn, 1972). Komendant combined technical expertise with a keen sense of aesthetics: as an engineer, he valued the timeless and enduring qualities of architecture. He knew that miracles require more than spreadsheets and a budget – the creative impulse is essential. One of the most innovative civil engineers of the 20th century. Specialized in the use of reinforced concrete and various other concrete technologies Structural engineer to architects such as Louis I. Kahn, Moshe Safdie, and Eero Saarinen

Architecture Oriented Otherwise

Autor: David Leatherbarrow

Número de Páginas: 305

So much writing about architecture tends to evaluate it on the basis of its intentions: how closely it corresponds to the artistic will of the designer, the technical skills of the builder, or whether it reflects the spirit of the place and time in which it was built, making it not much more than the willful (or even subconscious) assemblage of objects that result from design and construction techniques. Renowned writer and thinker David Leatherbarrow, in this groundbreaking new book, argues for a richer and more profound, but also simpler, way of thinking about architecture, namely on the basis of how it performs. Not simply how it functions, but how it acts, "its manner of existing in the world," including its effects on the observers and inhabitants of a building as well as on the landscape that situates it. In the process, Leatherbarrow transforms our way of discussing buildings from a passive technical or programmatic assessment to a highly active and engaged examination of the lives and performances, intended and otherwise, of buildings.

Latin American Literature in Transition 1870–1930

Autor: Fernando Degiovanni , Javier Uriarte

Número de Páginas: 708

Latin American Literature in Transition 1870-1930 examines how the circulation of goods, people, and ideas permeated every aspect of the continent's cultural production at the end of the nineteenth century. It analyzes the ways in which rapidly transforming technological and labour conditions contributed to forging new intellectual networks, exploring innovative forms of knowledge, and reimagining the material and immaterial worlds. This volume shows the new directions in turn-of-the-century scholarship that developed over the last two decades by investigating how the experience of capitalism produced an array of works that deal with primitive accumulation, transnational crossings, and an emerging technological and material reality in diverse geographies and a variety of cultural forms. Essays provide a novel understanding of the period as they discuss the ways in which particular commodities, intellectual networks, popular uprisings, materialities, and non-metropolitan locations redefined cultural production at a time when the place of Latin America in global affairs was significantly transformed.

High Life

Autor: Matthew Lasner

Número de Páginas: 457

The first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of condominium and cooperative housing in twentieth-century America. Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family house. As the American dream evolves, precipitated by rising real estate prices and a renewed interest in urban living, many predict that condos will become the predominant form of housing in the twenty-first century. In this unprecedented study, Matthew Gordon Lasner explores the history of co-owned multifamily housing in the United States, from New York City’s first co-op, in 1881, to contemporary condominium and townhouse complexes coast to coast. Lasner explains the complicated social, economic, and political factors that have increased demand for this way of living, situating the trend within the larger housing market and broad shifts in residential architecture and family life. He contrasts the prevalence and popularity of condos, townhouses, and other privately governed communities with their ambiguous economic, legal, and social standing, as well as their striking absence from urban and architectural history.

National Endowment for the Humanities ... Annual Report

Autor: National Endowment For The Humanities

Número de Páginas: 206

Policing Life and Death

Autor: Marisol Lebrón

Número de Páginas: 318

In her exciting new book, Marisol LeBrón traces the rise of punitive governance in Puerto Rico over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present. Punitive governance emerged as a way for the Puerto Rican state to manage the deep and ongoing crises stemming from the archipelago’s incorporation into the United States as a colonial territory. A structuring component of everyday life for many Puerto Ricans, police power has reinforced social inequality and worsened conditions of vulnerability in marginalized communities. This book provides powerful examples of how Puerto Ricans negotiate and resist their subjection to increased levels of segregation, criminalization, discrimination, and harm. Policing Life and Death shows how Puerto Ricans are actively rejecting punitive solutions and working toward alternative understandings of safety and a more just future.

Annual Report - National Endowment for the Humanities

Autor: National Endowment For The Humanities

Número de Páginas: 788

Frontiers of Engineering

Autor: National Academy Of Engineering

Número de Páginas: 175

This volume presents papers on the topics covered at the National Academy of Engineering's 2015 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Every year the symposium brings together 100 outstanding young leaders in engineering to share their cutting-edge research and innovations in selected areas. The 2015 symposium was held September 9-11 at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman center in Irvine, California. The intent of this book is to highlight innovative developments in engineering research and technical work.

Information 2000

Número de Páginas: 604

The Territories of Identity

Autor: Soumyen Bandyopadhyay , Guillermo Garma Montiel

Número de Páginas: 305

The expedited globalised process of exchange and new forms of cultural production have transformed old established notions of identity, calling into question their conceptual foundations. This book explores the spatial and representational dimension of this phenomenon, by addressing how the reshaping of the key themes of place, architecture and memory are altering the nature, as well as, our understanding of identity. Cutting across boundaries, the book drives discussion of identity beyond the well-worn concern for its loss within a globalised context, and importantly provides links between identity, place, memory and representation in architecture. Examining a range of case studies from Australia, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Puerto Rico, Turkey and Singapore, as well as with contributions cutting across geographical and temporal boundaries, this volume addresses such issues as architecture technology, place and memory – critical issues in the monitoring and mapping of identity shift within a rapidly globalising context. With contributions from renowned authors in the field including Nicholas Temple, Patsy Hely, Robert Brown, Liane Lefaivre, John Hendrix, Ana Souto,...

Kicking Off the Bootstraps

Autor: DŽborah Berman Santana

Número de Páginas: 228

While small communities in Third World countries usually seem at the mercy of central governments and foreign capitalists, local activists can help exploited peoples correct environmental abuses and social injustices and seize control of their own destinies. Kicking Off the Bootstraps is a powerful case history of such an effort. It describes a grassroots activist movement that emerged in the Puerto Rican community of Salinas to counter the poverty and economic dependence experienced by its citizens in the wake of "Operation Bootstrap," a post-World War II industrial development program. DŽborah Berman Santana examines the efforts of the community to develop its own economic strategy based primarily on environmentally and socially responsible uses of local natural and human resources. Berman Santana shows how local activists are seeking to empower the Salinas community to make decisions concerning economic development. She evaluates present-day efforts to develop positive alternatives, examining the motivations of the activists, the nature of their projects, their efforts to mobilize the community, their dealings with government and other organizations, and the obstacles they...

Almanac of Architecture & Design 2006

Autor: James P. Cramer , Jennifer Evans Yankopolus

Número de Páginas: 784

The Politics of Furniture

Autor: Fredie Floré , Cammie Mcatee

Número de Páginas: 423

In many different parts of the world modern furniture elements have served as material expressions of power in the post-war era. They were often meant to express an international and in some respects apolitical modern language, but when placed in a sensitive setting or a meaningful architectural context, they were highly capable of negotiating or manipulating ideological messages. The agency of modern furniture was often less overt than that of political slogans or statements, but as the chapters in this book reveal, it had the potential of becoming a persuasive and malleable ally in very diverse politically charged arenas, including embassies, governmental ministries, showrooms, exhibitions, design schools, libraries, museums and even prisons. This collection of chapters examines the consolidating as well as the disrupting force of modern furniture in the global context between 1945 and the mid-1970s. The volume shows that key to understanding this phenomenon is the study of the national as well as transnational systems through which it was launched, promoted and received. While some chapters squarely focus on individual furniture elements as vehicles communicating political and...

Modern Architecture and Climate

Autor: Daniel A. Barber

Número de Páginas: 328

How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architects Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how regional approaches to climate adaptability were essential to the development of modern architecture. Focusing on the period surrounding World War II—before fossil-fuel powered air-conditioning became widely available—Daniel Barber brings to light a vibrant and dynamic architectural discussion involving design, materials, and shading systems as means of interior climate control. He looks at projects by well-known architects such as Richard Neutra, Le Corbusier, Lúcio Costa, Mies van der Rohe, and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, and the work of climate-focused architects such as MMM Roberto, Olgyay and Olgyay, and Cliff May. Drawing on the editorial projects of James Marston Fitch, Elizabeth Gordon, and others, he demonstrates how images and diagrams produced by architects helped conceptualize climate knowledge, alongside the work of meteorologists, physicists, engineers, and social scientists. Barber describes how this novel type of environmental...

1898

Autor: Taina Beatriz Caragol-barreto , Taína Caragol , Kate Clarke Lemay , Jorge Duany , Theodore S. Gonzalves , Kristin Hoganson

Número de Páginas: 329

A revealing look at U.S. imperialism through the lens of visual culture and portraiture In 1898, the United States seized territories overseas, ushering in an era of expansion that was at odds with the nation’s founding promise of freedom and democracy for all. This book draws on portraiture and visual culture to provide fresh perspectives on this crucial yet underappreciated period in history. Taína Caragol and Kate Clarke Lemay tell the story of 1898 by bringing together portraits of U.S. figures who favored overseas expansion, such as William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, with those of leading figures who resisted colonization, including Eugenio María de Hostos of Puerto Rico; José Martí of Cuba; Felipe Agoncillo of the Philippines; Padre Jose Bernardo Palomo of Guam; and Queen Lili‘uokalani of Hawai‘i. Throughout the book, Caragol and Lemay also look at landscapes, naval scenes, and ephemera. They consider works of art by important period artists Winslow Homer and Armando Menocal as well as contemporary artists such as Maia Cruz Palileo, Stephanie Syjuco, and Miguel Luciano. Paul A. Kramer’s essay addresses the role of the Smithsonian Institution in supporting...

Actas do XII Congresso Internacional de AHILA

Autor: Asociación De Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos. Congreso

Número de Páginas: 492

Interpreting Spanish Colonialism

Autor: Christopher Schmidt-nowara , John M. Nieto-phillips

Número de Páginas: 284

Scholars from Spain, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States discuss historical writings of the past and how our understanding of the colonial era has been influenced by the expectations of the day.

Apuntes para la historia de Puerto-Rico

Autor: Francisco Mariano Quiñones

Número de Páginas: 214

Los lazos de la cultura

Autor: Consuelo Naranjo Orovio , Consuelo Naranjo , María Dolores Luque De Sánchez , Miguel Angel Puig-samper

Número de Páginas: 420

Se recogen en este volumen diversos ensayos escritos por reconocidas figuras que estudian estas relaciones culturales entre Puerto Rico, Estados Unidos y España. Recrea un capítulo de la historia cultural de España, Puerto Rico y Estados Unidos entre 1916 y 1939, en el que se encuentra gran parte de la memoria de las primeras décadas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico y del Centro de Estudios Históricos de Madrid. Se trata del proyecto de Federico de Onís de hacer de la Universidad de Puerto Rico el lugar de encuentro de los tres países, que se materializó en el diseño y creación del Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos. Juan Ramón Jimenez, Pedro Salinas o Menéndez Pidal son algunos de los nombres vinculados a esta historia. El libro es el recuento de esos años, a través de varios trabajos de diferentes autores, con testimonios gráficos como la correspondencia de sus protagonistas o fotografías.