Chilean Modern Architecture since 1950: Volume 8: 08 (Studies in Architecture and Culture) - Hardcover

Oyarzun, Fernando Pérez; Arce, Rodrigo Pérez De; Torrent, Horacio

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ISBN 10: 1603441352 ISBN 13: 9781603441353

Verlag: Texas A & M University Press, 2010

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Chilean architecture―along with that of São Paolo and Mexico City―sets a benchmark for the intersection of modernism with vernacular influences in Latin America. Culture, landscape, and the geology of this earthquake-prone region have all served as important filters for the practice of post-1950s design in Chile. This volume introduces the modern architecture of Chile to readers in the United States. Looking primarily at domestic architecture as a lens for studying the larger movement, Fernando Pérez Oyarzun considers the relationship between theory and practice in Chile. As he shows in his chapter, during the early 1950s the School of Valparaíso offered the possibility of developing experimental projects accompanied by theoretical statements. There, visual artists considered poetry the starting point of modern architecture and contributed their radically modern views to the design process of the project. Next, Rodrigo Pérez de Arce examines the material context of architecture in Chile: the availability of materials and technologies, the frequency of violent earthquakes and related seismic activity, and the nation’s craft-based, labor-intensive building practices. He applies these considerations to a series of case studies to demonstrate how they interact with cultural, historical, economic, and even political influences. In the book's final chapter, Horacio Torrent reviews the interplay between the architectonic culture and modern shapes that came into sharp focus in the 1950s in Chile. In another series of case studies, he highlights the formation of a system of concepts, thought processes, instruments, and values that have given Chilean architecture a certain singularity during the last fifty years.

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Fernando Pérez Oyarzún, Rodrigo Pérez de Arce, and Horacio Torrent are professors of architecture at Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago. All have written extensively on modern architecture in Chile.

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• Verlag: Texas A & M University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1603441352
• ISBN 13: 9781603441353
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Herausgeber: Quantrill Malcolm William
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