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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.
Author
León, Ana María
Publication
Santiago, Chile : ARQ Ediciones : Escuela de Arquitectura, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2021.

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Additional Authors
  • Razmilic, Rayna
  • Diaz, Francisco
Description
127 pages : illustrations, plan; 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).
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Alternative Title
  • Una ruina al revés
  • Ruin in reverse
Subject
  • Museo de La Plata > History
  • Biblioteca Nacional (Argentina) > History
  • Architecture and society > Buenos Aires > History > 20th century
  • Architecture > Buenos Aires > History
Genre/Form
Tête-bêche (Binding)
Note
  • 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).
  • Texts issued back-to-back and inverted (Tête-bêche format).
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Parallel texts in Spanish and English.
ISBN
  • 9569571918
  • 9789569571916
OCLC
  • on1336401764
  • SCSB-14355080
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library