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This volume explores the relationship between landscape and architecture by means of more than twenty current Latin American examples, the aim being to demonstrate the interaction between the two disciplines. Architectures appear that, firstly, have less to do with the objectual idea that preserves the reality of a devastated planet, and secondly, a modified, domesticated landscape.
The works chosen extend from architectures inserted as objects in the landscape-a house by Gabriel Orozco, for example-to architectures that not only constitute the support but also the container of domesticated bits of nature; the Orchidorama in Medellín, for instance. Other examples are based on experiments, games and temporary installations whose common denominator is an alteration of the landscape per se. Also included in this number are more landscapist schemes that define territories, make them accessible, and at the same time introduce monumental elements so that they may take on the characteristics of genuine places.
Table of contents:
Introduction
Between soil and sky, or cultural memory and invention in contemporary Latin American landscapes by David Leatherbarrow
Latin American landscape by Miquel Adrià
Works and projects
Germán del Sol. Remota Hotel, Patagonia, Chile
Alberto Varas. Memory Park, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Paula Fierro. Childhood Farm, Rosario, Argentina
Carlos Barrado, Mónica Bertolino. Farm, Córdoba, Argentina
Felipe Uribe. Rituales Crematorium, Guarne, Colombia
Gabriel Orozco. Observatory House, Oaxaca, Mexico
Tatiana Bilbao. Botanical Garden, Culiacán, Mexico
Luis Zárate. Ethnobotanical Garden, Oaxaca, Mexico
Gilberto Borja. Art Courtyards, Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Pezo Von Ellrichshausen. Heaven on Earth, Concepción, Chile
Smiljan Radic. Pite House, Papudo, Chile
JPRCR + Planb. Orchidorama, Medellín, Colombia
Kees Van Rooij. Mayor House, Mexico City, Mexico
Wanted/Michele Adriàn, Paula Meijerink. Asphalt Garden, Métis, Canada
Jerónimo Hagerman. Scale Forest, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Juan Grimm. Chiñihue Park, Chile
Ambiente Arquitectos Asociados. Lomas del Pedregal residential development, Mexico City, Mexico
Rosa Grena Kliass. Mangue das Garças, Belém, Brazil
Ruth Alvarado, Cynthia Watmough. La Honda Beach Club, Ancash, Peru
Jerónimo Gabayet. Sacred Valley, Tepoztlán, Mexico
Teresa Moller. Punta Pite, Papudo, Chile
Lorenzo Castro, Juan Camilo Santamaría. Water Park, Bucaramanga, Colombia
Mario Schjetnan. Chapultepec Forest, Mexico City, Mexico
GHBF Estudio. Interventions in a park, El Cazador, Escobar, Argentina
Vila, Sebastián, Vila y Asociados. Two parks in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Biographies
