Building Cultures Valparaiso: Pedagogy, practice and poetry at the Valparaiso School of Architecture and Design [Hardcover]

Building Cultures Valparaiso investigates the radical approach to teaching and making at the School of Architecture and Design in Valparaiso, Chile. With newly commissioned essays from, among others, Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio Gonzalez Gal?n and Gerald Wildgruber and a collection of meticulously reproduced drawings from the schools archives, Building Cultures Valparaiso is a resource for scholars and practitioners interested in alternative visions of architecture.

Preface  Sony Devabhaktuni, Patricia Guaita, and Cornelia Tapparelli / Introduction  Sony Devabhaktuni / El camino no es el camino: Some Reflections on the Valparaiso School and Its Architectural Teaching  Patricia Guaita and Cornelia Tapparelli / Architectures Cogito: Building on the Edge of Infinity  Gerald Wildgruber / A Pursuit for a Change of Life: Pedagogical Experiences, Poetic Occupations and Historical Frictions  Ignacio Gonz?lez Gal?n / Radical Pedagogies: Notes towards a Taxonomy of Global Experiments  Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio Gonz?lez Gal?n, Evangelos Kotsioris and Anna-Maria Meister / Open City Notebook  Sony Devabhaktuni / 8 Projects in the Open City, 1973  David Jolly Monge / Archives 1971-1973