This issue is dedicated to presenting and analyzing the work and surrounding cultural/political issues of the architectures of Latin America judged to be of most merit and interest by a faculty committee at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Their sense was that much of this work had not yet received sufficient attention and acclaim. They were adamant that the issue in no way imply that Latin American architecture and culture were one kind of thing: in fact, a goal of the magazine is to dispel stereotypes and conventional opinion, to seek for diversity. This is the first time that Harvard Design Magazine has published projects for their own sake, outside the context of a writer’s broad argument. We hope you enjoy this more visual material taking its place among our more familiar critical essays.
34: Architectures of Latin America F/W 2011
Table of Contents
Essays
(In)visibility, Poverty, and Cultural Change in South American Cities
14 Billions
Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice by Eric J. Cesal
Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History (1948) by Sigfried Giedion
Modernism after Wagner by Juliet Koss
Perverse Cities: Hidden Subsidies, Wonky Policy, and Urban Sprawl by Pamela Blais
A Projective Space for the South American Hinterland: Resource-Extraction Urbanism
Aquatic Complex for the IX South American Games, Colombia
Casa Ajijic, Mexico
Casa Cururo and its Landscape, Chile
Casa de los Tamices, Argentina
Casa Pentimento, Ecuador
Chile, Matter, and Landscape
Cien House, Chile
Colombia 325, Brazil
Copper House 2, Chile
Cummulus_1664, Colorado
Enclaves and Counter-Enclaves (in Brazilian Housing, Film, and Art)
For a Latin American Architectural Criticism
From Paradigm to Paradox: On the Architecture Collectives of Latin America
House in Santa Teresa, Brazil
Interfacephyta Multicapacitaceae, Colombia
Landscape in Everything: Lessons from the Valparaíso School
Mexican Architecture Must Redeem Poor Construction
Monte Sinai Synagogue, Mexico
O Avesso Do Avesso: Recent Brazilian Architecture
Post-Disaster Regeneration in Chile: Urgent Responses and Gradual Developments in a Seismic Country
Problems with Urban Design Competitions
Sports Coliseums for the IX South American Games, Colombia
Studio, Paraguay
Teatina-Quincha Shelter, Peru
The Inner Outside
Three to Now
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Graduate Center, Chile
Urban Transformation (in Latin America) through Mass Transit
What or Who Drives Architectural Design Now?
WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture
