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Reseña del libro por Alejandrina Escudero La Guía de Arquitectura de la Ciudad Universitaria de 1952, publicada por el Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM, aborda uno de los conjuntos urbanos más notorios del siglo XX en México. Situado al sur de la Ciudad de México, sobre un lecho de lava volcánica, su construcción representó no sólo un hito arquitectónico sino una verdadera transformación de la comunidad educativa, influyendo decisivamente en las nuevas generaciones de estudiantes y en el destino del país. La Ciudad Universitaria se ajustó al plan maestro, de Mario Pani y Enrique del Moral,…

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Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd CBE (3 January 1919 – 16 October 1971) was an Australian architect, writer, teacher and social activist. Along with Harry Seidler, he was one of the leading proponents of the Modern Movement in Australian architecture. Boyd is the author of the influential book The Australian Ugliness (1960), a critique of Australian architecture, particularly the state of Australian suburbia and its lack of a uniform architectural purpose.

Robin Boyd was a scion of Australia’s Boyd artistic dynasty, and his extended family consisted of painters, sculptors, architects, writers and other practitioners of the various arts. Robin was the youngest son of painter Penleigh Boyd, and his own son, named after his grandfather Penleigh, is an architect. He was the nephew of author Martin Boyd and first cousin of Australian painter Arthur Boyd and his brothers David and Guy. In 1938, his grandfather Arthur Merric Boyd offered him his first commission, a studio for Arthur Boyd on the Boyd property, Open Country, in Murrumbeena. Another cousin was Joan (Weigall) Lindsay (author of Picnic at Hanging Rock). She was married to Daryl Lindsay, director of the National Gallery of Victoria, from 1942 to 1956, and her brothers were Lionel Lindsay and the renowned artist and author Norman Lindsay.

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Con la obsolescencia de las funciones portuarias, los procesos sociales y económicos, que nuestra sociedad atravesó, terminaron por actualizar la identidad (del sitio) y su conexión con la ciudad. Por lo tanto, resultó en el desprendimiento de su condición óntica física y su simbólica.

Este proyecto pretende expresar la fenomenología del emplazamiento siguiendo sus huellas como una producción de oor para la ciudad. Ao mesmo tempo, procura denunciar através da evidência das diferentes, as grandes ausências culturais, sociais e económicas, explorando a criação de atmosferas para o vinculo, a memória e a consciência socioambiental da cidade.

El proyecto también plantea la potenciación de los recursos tangibles (recuperación de los paseos al atardecer y al amanecer sobre el río, multiplicación de las tierras productivas, aumento de los espacios públicos y forestación de especies autóctonas; el muelle y la pasarela se descubren sobre el agua) y no tangibles (conciencia socio-simbólica del territorio y sus relaciones productivas con el río y la ciudad; conciencia socio-ambiental y celebración de la diversidad; muelles enfrentados entre el sitio y Alto Verde, identificándolos, reabriendo el antiguo vínculo) como estrategias de reconquista, adaptándose a los desplazamientos culturales, económicos y sociales, sin perder su identidad, acumulación y paisaje cultural.

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The lecture-which will examine the role of emotion and politics in heritage creation-will draw on material from her book Emotional Heritage (Routledge, 2021), a publication in which Smith discusses her research on visitors to heritage sites and museums in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States.

Laurajane SmithProfessor and Director of the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, Research School of Humanities and Arts, Australian National University. She is a member of the Society for the Academy of Social Sciences of that country. She founded the Critical Heritage Studies Association, and has been editor of the International Journal of Heritage Studies since 2009. She is the author of Uses of Heritage (2006) and Emotional Heritage (2021) and editor with Natsuko Akagawa of Intangible Heritage (2009) and Safeguarding Intangible Heritage (2018), all published with the English publisher Routledge. At this publisher she is also co-general editor with William Logan of the Key Issues in Cultural Heritage series.