Arquitectura popular de los valles Calchaquíes
Arquitectura popular de los valles Calchaquíes

Author: Roque Gómez

Publisher: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Salta

Published: 2020-07-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9506231257

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Segunda edición, bilingüe (español – inglés) y con dibujos del autor, de esta esmerada obra fruto de una sostenida inquietud de Roque Manuel Gómez por el análisis y estudio de los Valles Calchaquíes y su arquitectura, dada su especial particularidad y su extraordinaria riqueza patrimonial. Permite comprender los patrones del "diseño" urbano-arquitectónico operado en el Valle, a la luz de los procesos históricos, y determinar el cambio, evolución o perduración de los rasgos que la caracterizan, considerando que existe una íntima relación entre la arquitectura, los hombres que la crean y los que hacen uso de ella. Asimismo proporciona conocimientos ordenados sobre los tipos fundamentales del diseño urbano-arquitectónico, analizando sus aspectos funcionales, técnicos y formales, y su relación cronológica. La obra rescata la memoria colectiva a fin de difundirla, lograr su revalorización y contribuir a su conocimiento y preservación. Se trata de documentos valiosos de la historia de estos pueblos, que se constituyen en verdaderas experiencias vivas, útiles para el proceso creativo para todos aquellos que estén en la búsqueda de profundas raíces con el objeto de producir obras de arquitectura con características auténticas.

Territorial Heritage and Development
Territorial Heritage and Development

Author: José Maria Feria

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2012-03-05

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0415621453

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This book presents a new approach to heritage, linking it to territory and sustainable development. This new approach entails a broader, integrated view of heritage values on the one hand, and on the other a shift in emphasis from their protection to their valorisation. In short, it provides a view of the joint workings of natural and cultural resources, and, as a consequence, moving away from a protection point of view in favour of a perspective on their suitable sustainable valorisation. In the viewpoint taken here, sustainability is understood as the balance and long-term preservation and enhancement of such natural and cultural resources and processes in a given territory. Territorial Heritage and Development includes contributions from different disciplines (geography, architecture, planning, sociology, environmental studies and archaeology) and case studies drawn from three continents, broaching both analytical and conceptual developments, and a range of initiatives for engaging in territorial heritage as an instrument of sustainable development. The book takes a pioneering and relevant approach to the breadth and complexity of the issue which can be valuable to academics and policy-makers in Geography, Architecture, Planning and Sociology.

Rammed Earth Conservation
Rammed Earth Conservation

Author: C. Mileto

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2012-05-31

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 0415621259

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Includes a free CD containing the full contents of the book. The rammed earth technique, in all its variants, is widespread all over the world. This enormously prevalent building technique harbours an important richness of varieties both in application and in materials used. Interventions on historical rammed earth buildings have also been carried out in all the geographical areas where these structures are found. This historical heritage has undergone diverse forms of reconstruction, conservation, repair, substitution and/or structural consolidation. The different criteria applied require different techniques, materials or forms of intervention. The results of the interventions have also been manifold, both in terms of the impact on the building and the technical and material durability. With a view to these issues, this book deals with rammed earth architecture and its restoration, and, in a more general sense, with the construction techniques and restoration of all earthen structures. Rammed Earth Conservation will be a valuable source of information for academics and professionals in the fields of Civil Engineering, Construction and Building Engineering and Architecture.

Catalog
Catalog

Author: University of Texas. Library. Latin American Collection

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 810

ISBN-13:

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Rethinking the Inka
Rethinking the Inka

Author: Frances M. Hayashida

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2022-02-08

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1477323872

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2023 Book Award, Society for American Archaeology A dramatic reappraisal of the Inka Empire through the lens of Qullasuyu. The Inka conquered an immense area extending across five modern nations, yet most English-language publications on the Inka focus on governance in the area of modern Peru. This volume expands the range of scholarship available in English by collecting new and notable research on Qullasuyu, the largest of the four quarters of the empire, which extended south from Cuzco into contemporary Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. From the study of Qullasuyu arise fresh theoretical perspectives that both complement and challenge what we think we know about the Inka. While existing scholarship emphasizes the political and economic rationales underlying state action, Rethinking the Inka turns to the conquered themselves and reassesses imperial motivations. The book’s chapters, incorporating more than two hundred photographs, explore relations between powerful local lords and their Inka rulers; the roles of nonhumans in the social and political life of the empire; local landscapes remade under Inka rule; and the appropriation and reinterpretation by locals of Inka objects, infrastructure, practices, and symbols. Written by some of South America’s leading archaeologists, Rethinking the Inka is poised to be a landmark book in the field.