2G NO.62 STEFANO BOERI

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

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.