The Modern Villa in Caracas

CARACAS - As a preface to our discussion of the Modern Villa in Caracas, it is important to consider the following ideas: Topophilia: the love for place, as conceptualized within the field of human geography by Yi-Fu Tuan...

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Caracas

Following modern design's footsteps

CARACAS - When I think of the Caracas of today and its waning modern design heritage that is slowly disappearing to the rhythm...

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Realism to Abstraction and Back Again in Art and Video Games

Forms of interactive computer simulations such as video games and virtual reality represent space in real time. The computer must make a new image every time an input is given

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Beyond the Dust

Used bookstores in Mexico City

MEXICO CITY - I hate dust, but I love books and the surprise of what I find between one and the other...

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San Juan

The B-side

SAN JUAN - Este país… ¡no existe! [This country… doesn’t exist!], a play by Myrna Casas, was first staged in Río Piedras in 1993 at a critical political junction; official government activities celebrated the 5th centenary of the island’s “discovery,” and the second referendum on its political status resulted in maintaining Puerto Rico as an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Cali

Unity Is Strength

CALI - Cities on the periphery have become a fertile testing ground for strategies of alternative production and diffusion within the Latin-American map.

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Madrid Scene

Transforming the city and its artistic traditions

MADRID - As a foreigner living for five years in Madrid, I’ve observed and participated in some important changes in the city’s milieu.

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Proper Names

BROOKLYN - I moved to the United States in 1983. The first six years, I missed Honduras very much and went back to visit almost twice a year. The truth is...

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Guadalajara

A Chain Reaction

GUADALAJARA - Much of the architecture in Guadalajara is characterized by its rationalism and modernism...

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Caracas' Unofficial Art Scene

CARACAS - In recent years, the art scene in Caracas has needed to adapt to the complex and constantly changing political and socioeconomic situation, which is currently going through a critical moment.

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Contiguous Spaces

MEXICO CITY - In Mexico City, there are a surprising number of institutions dedicated to contemporary art.

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This is Not Archaeology

Notes on the Peruvian desert

LIMA - Lima sprawls over an arid landscape—between the ocean and the mountains—full of pre-hispanic remnants forgotten by modernity, that are now reappearing like palimpsests in the fog of a capital city that is characterized by its historic fusion.

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