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Title: Park Avenue Armory by Herzog & de Meuron
Author: Olimpia Lira. Architect, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Abstract: The recovery of a militar y facility in New York serves as an exemplary case as to expand the catalog of design strategies and operations for the preservation of architectural heritage. Here, different historical layers and eras coexist.
Keywords: architecture – U.S.A., rehabilitation, architectural restoration, recycling, heritage
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Title: From the passage to the people’s galleries
Author: Wiley Ludeña. Professor, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Peru. / Diana Torres. Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru.
Abstract: A kind of capitalist bazaar, the passage is installed in the 19th century as an essential expression of the modern city, now superseded by the mall. However, Latin American neoliberal policies have reinstated its newer versions as a symbol of popular capitalism.
Keywords: architecture – Peru, urban fabric, commercial architecture, passages, neoliberal city
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Title: Architecture of ranchers in San Pedro de Atacama
Author: Flora Vilches. Professor, Anthropology Department, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. / Lorena Sanhueza. Professor, Anthropology Department, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. / Cristina Garrido. Antropologist, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
Abstract: The body of architectural material associated with the ranching era in San Pedro de Atacama does not seem to be part of the local heritage discourse. However, its own invisibility and memory would demonstrate that it is an impor tant part of the Atacama identity.
Keywords: architecture – Chile, heritage, archaeology, cattle traffic, capitalism, desert architecture
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Editorial. Heritages

A tiny house for workers alongside an old industrial complex; an ample temple ruined by nature; anonymous archive photos found by chance; the memory of some fences that surrounded an urban garden; modest ranch buildings in the desert; an elegant regiment turned into cultural venue: the diverse set of works that this issue features highlights the multiple, dispersed and heterogeneous nature of what we mean by ‘heritage’.

An enlarged and certainly generic definition of ‘heritage’ would imply that it comprises the full set of what we have, including both single and collective realms as those private and public, in addition to the tangible and intangible domain. However, as such diverse entity, heritage is understood in complex, asymmetric ways that are never homogeneous neither obvious: as suggested by the text of Márquez, Rozas and Arriagada, most of the time the qualitative definitions of heritage have been ‘monolithic and articulated from power’, particularly focused in monuments.

Associated often to conservatism and the hegemonic discourses, in recent years the concept of heritage has been displaced from its former center and redefined. The polyphonic nature of the city has resulted in the validation of other identities that, from the borders, have managed to install other ideologies, other images and other cultures that have opened the concept of heritage into new realms.

The first meaning of the word ‘heritage’ quoted in the dictionary refers -with some candor- to the sphere of family, property and the pre existences; it also includes the notions of permanence and sedimentation. Heritage is the ‘treasure that someone has inherited from his or her ancestors’. The inheritance that we as architects must engage with has been accumulated over time and is unequivocally linked to the past, but also has a projection into the future since it addresses the generation and care of a legacy for the generations that will follow us. Besides taking care of what we have received, we should consider about the material and intangible world that we will leave after us.

This third issue of 2014 closes a cycle of four years in which it was my responsibility and honor to participate as editor. The first issue of 2015 will open a new period for a new editor; I do hope you continue following the growth of this editorial project that soon will celebrate 35 years of existence. Thank you!

Summary (printed version)

Editorial

Heritages / Patricio Mardones

Galería AFA Portfolio

Circa / Nicolás Franco

Readings, works and projects

Obras en la Basílica del Salvador, Santiago, Chile / Dino Bozzi, Francisco Prado

Park Avenue Armory by Herzog & de Meuron / Olimpia Lira

Teatro Thalia, Lisboa, Portugal / Gonçalo Byrne, Patrícia Barbas, Diogo Seixas Lopes

La rehabilitación arquitectónica planificada / Claudia Torres

Nueva Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional, Santiago, Chile / Alejandro Beals, Loreto Lyon, Matías Zegers

From the passage to the people’s galleries / Wiley Ludeña, Diana Torres

Phantom Railings, Londres, Inglaterra / Catalina Pollak

El lugar del patrimonio dominante / Francisca Márquez, Valentina Rozas, Rodolfo Arriagada

Cubierta de la antigua iglesia de Baños / Christian Brown, Paola Meneses

El tiempo de Carrières Centrales, Casablanca / Cristina García, Raúl Castellanos

Recuperación de una rectoría, Sales de Llierca, España / José Quintanilla Chala, Josep Maria Riera i Mas

Architecture of ranchers in San Pedro de Atacama / Flora Vilches, Lorena Sanhueza, Cristina Garrido

Casa Barrios Bajos, Valdivia, Chile / Pablo Ojeda