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Housing Explorations. Unidad Vecinal Portales in Santiago
(2021)
This article explores the contribution of Unidad Vecinal Portales – built in Santiago de Chile by the studio Bresciani, Valdés, Castillo y Huidobro – to the debates on social housing in Chile between the 1940s and 1960s. ...
Modern heritage, organic space, material permanence: Torres Posse House in Tafí del Valle
(2021)
The Torres Posse House (1957-1958) is a testimony to the particular forms that the modern house took in the context of northern Argentina, and at the same time shows how the conservation and sustainability of modern heritage ...
Histories of modern architecture
(Birkhäuser Verlag, 2023)
Arquitectura moderna en Chile. El caso de Roberto Dávila Carson
(Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2012)
Modern Architecture that began in Europe at early XX Century has reached Chile through publications, but also through the travelling of Chilean architects to Europe. Trying to apply the modern principles in Chile, those ...
Architecture and modern literature
This is a book about the interpretation of architectural forms in modern
literature. One of its claims is that literature’s encounter with the built environment is essential to its de‹nition of what is sometimes called ...
A DIFFERENT RECEPTION MODERN BRAZILIAN ARCHITECTURE AND CHILEAN ARCHITECTURAL CULTURE
(PONTIFICIA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, ESCUELA ARQUITECTURA, 2011)
Wood: Matter of modern architecture
(Wiley, 2017)
This article reviews the experience of modern architecture in direct relationship with wood as a material: from its power as a technical solution of the parts and their assembly as an expression, to the expressive capacity ...