Revista Ensayo
URI permanente para esta comunidadhttp://54.81.141.168/handle/123456789/202670
ISSN: 2413-9726
e-ISSN: 2710-2947
ENSAYO Revista de arquitectura, urbanismo y territorio es una publicación anual que busca promover y enriquecer la cultura disciplinar al desarrollar temas de interés en el ámbito local, regional y latinoamericano. Ofrece documentos sobre arquitectura, urbanismo y territorio a modo de debates actuales, reflexiones relativas al pensamiento teórico y proyectual, investigaciones históricas, así como exploraciones de carácter tecnológico
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Ítem Texto completo enlazado Eduardo Neira Alva. Aportes profesionales para el debate sobre el desarrollo territorial y la ecología urbana en América Latina, 1961-1998(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015-12-18) Huapaya, José CarlosThe exceptional professional career of Peruvian architect and urbanist Eduardo Neira Alva (1924-2005) was not only limited to Peru. Between 1960 and 1980, Neira worked with important Latin American institutions created to promote economic development in the countries of the region such us the Center of Development Studies (Cendes), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES). The positions he held enabled him to know professionals from several countries and different ways and methods used to promote economic development in each reality. The main purpose of this article is to understand the development of his ideology and his contributions in Latin America. To do so, this research analyzes the most representative texts that Neira wrote in the aforementioned professional contexts (including both published and unpublished works) between 1961 and 1998. These texts reveal his eagerness to understand the link between architecture and human habitat, and his concern to «expand scales», from regional development to territorial planning, and discuss issues that had not been discussed before, such as eco-development.Ítem Texto completo enlazado El star system arquitectónico(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015-12-18) Gorostiza, JorgeThe term star system, which has been applied to a few famous architects for some time, comes from the movie star system created by large film studios. This is why this paper beings with the first movie “star”, Florence Lawrence, and then analyzes the popularity of architects in different media. It initially analyzes fiction films narrating the story of real architects. Then, it focuses on the appearance of architects in other media, such us the cover of popular magazines like Time, American post-age stamps, Google doodles and advertisements with pictures of architects. Star architects also have a theme park, Vitra, with buildings that most of them created. The following section focuses on awards, such as the Pritzker award, that launch architects to fame. The last section is about one of the most famous starchitects in the world, Frank O. Gehry, his own heroic legend, his appearances in two animated series, Arthur and The Simpsons, and his leading role in the hagiographic documentary Sketches of Frank Gehry, directed by Sidney Pollack. The paper ends with Florence Lawrence’s tragic end and her fall into oblivion.Ítem Texto completo enlazado Thomas Reed. Un arquitecto del siglo XIX(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015-12-18) Saldarriaga, AlbertoThomas Reed, who was born in 1817 in the Tortola Island, in the Caribbean, and passed away in Daule, Ecuador in 1878, worked as an architect and engineer in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador between 1843 and 1878. Most of his works were requested by the governments of these three countries, and some of them are renowned for their exceptional quality at the time. That is why his name always appears in textbooks regarding the history of architecture in the 20th century in these three countries, and in each of them he is appreciated in a different way. Thomas Reed was an architect of his time with a solid academic background. He was also a talented engineer, well versed in structural principles and management of materials. Among his works, the most exceptional ones include the San Pablo Theater in Caracas, which was never built; the National Capitol and the former Panopticon, which is now the National Museum of Colombia in Bogotá; the Panopticon and School of Fine Arts in Quito, and the Jambelí Bridge in Ecuador. His work, inspired on the historicism of the 19th century, does not reflect nostalgia, but rather the way of thinking during his time. The historical time of his work is the present.