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Ana María León : una ruina al revés = a ruin in reverse : huesos de la nación = bones of the nation

Title
Ana María León : una ruina al revés = a ruin in reverse : huesos de la nación = bones of the nation / [edición : Francisco Diaz, Rayna Razmilic]
Publication
Santiago, Chile : ARQ Ediciones : Escuela de Arquitectura, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2021.

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Additional Authors
  • Diaz, Francisco
  • Razmilic Triantafilo, Rayna Elena
  • León, Ana María.
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Escuela de Arquitectura, issuing body.
Description
71, 127 pages : illustrations; 17 cm.
Summary
Ana María León is an architect, teacher and historian. Her work examines how conflict architectures have shaped the modernity and coloniality of the American continent. León is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, where she teaches architectural history and theory with an emphasis on transnational connections across the Americas. She has a PhD in History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture from MIT, an M.Des.S. with distinction from Harvard GSD, an M.Arch. from Georgia Tech, and an architect degree from UCSG. León is part of the GAHTC and SAH boards of directors, and co-founder of research and practice collectives inculcating Nuestro Norte es el Sur and the Settler Colonial City Project. She has just published the book Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonetþs Dreams for Buenos Aires (University of Texas Press, 2021)
Series Statement
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Uniform Title
ARQDOCS.
Alternative Title
  • Una ruina al revés
  • Ana María León : a ruin in reverse
  • Huesos de la nación
  • Ana María León : huesos de la nación
  • Ana María León : bones of the nation
Subject
  • Biblioteca Nacional (Argentina) > History
  • Museo de La Plata > History
  • Architecture > Buenos Aires > History > 20th century
  • Architecture and society > Buenos Aires > History > 20th century
Genre/Form
Tête-bêche (Binding)
Note
  • Texts issued back-to-back and inverted (Tête-bêche format).
  • Spanish translation of two previously published essays: A RUIN IN REVERSEʺ (This text was originally published in: Ana María León, "A Ruin in Reverse: The National Library of the Republic of Argentina, 1961-1992". Neoliberalism on the ground: architecture and transformation from the 1960s to the present. Edited by Kenny Cupers, Catharina Gabrielsson and Helena Mattsson. (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020). --Facing Title Page) and BONES OF THE NATIONʺ (Originally published in: Ana María León, "Bones of the Nation. The Museum of La Plata, Argentina, 1884-1888". Manifest - A Journal of the Americas # 3 "Bigger than Big" (2021) --Facing Title Page)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Parallel texts in Spanish and English.
Contents
Ana María León: una ruina al revés = a ruin in reverse -- Ana María León: huesos de la nación = bones of the nation.
ISBN
  • 9789569571916
  • 9569571918
OCLC
  • 1338312489
  • on1338312489
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries