Published in Buenos Aires in September 2020, this 240-page volume reflects a meticulous investigation and cataloging of Latin American architecture magazines published in print between 1874 and 2015.

Camping is a tourism model based on humanity's most primal way of inhabiting nature: itinerancy. Nomads settle on the land without physically altering it, yet they imbue it with meanings that forge connections to the occupied sites, both while traveling and at rest. This mobile habitat originates from the need to find shelter and food, but also from the desire to discover new cultures or places. Thus, vacation life—free and carefree—intensifies interpersonal relationships and allows for experimentation with new ways of communal living.

The work of Jesús de la Sota, known primarily for his furniture designs—which often complemented the buildings of renowned architects, such as his older brother Alejandro de la Sota—represents a unique case within 20th-century Spanish design. He was consistently distinguished by his elegant sobriety, brilliant refinement, and clean, powerful lines. He experimented across many diverse creative fields: as a painter, muralist, illustrator, draftsman, and graphic designer, he created chairs, armchairs, tables, and lamps, as well as books, fabrics, and tapestries, all in an attempt to unite utility and beauty in every sphere of daily life. He launched the firm Cores y Sota, a comprehensive interior design project capable of generating architecture from a small scale, in a constant search for the essential and the minimal.

Modern civilization, argues Franco "Bifo" Berardi, can be understood as a colonization of reality through laws. This included not only law in the strict sense—whose statutes sought to define a norm to regulate and 'normalize' social activity—but also the scientific laws that, for this Italian philosopher, aimed to "reduce the becoming of physical matter to the repetition of a model" (Berardi, 2018:40), thereby overcoming natural chaos through reason and measure (which share the Latin root ratio).

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The Uses of Decoration comprises four essays that investigate a set of normative representations of non-professional home decoration and its instrumentalization within various economies.

Arquitectura Maulina was born out of the absence of a platform focused on the Maule Region, Chile. The magazine proposes an architectural survey featuring online articles from professionals, students, photographers, and more, operating on the understanding that architecture is about more than just construction—it is also about establishing dialogues, posing questions, and maintaining records. This initiative is shaped by how we observe the region and what we should do to support it.

This book is the result of a workshop, a collaboration between the Interior Architecture department at HEAD and the Geneva Museum of Art and History. It invites students to explore the architectural vision for the Museum’s transformation and expansion, which will be the subject of an architectural competition next year. The work will help define the competition program and provide a space to reflect on the invention of a new museum model for the 21st century.

This book continues the line of research into our country's vernacular architecture conducted by the authors in various remote locations across the nation, focusing this time on the isolated settlements of the archipelagos along the Aysén region's coastline (1). Through this book, the urban ingenuity employed to inhabit this extreme landscape is identified and highlighted, the sense of rootedness achieved within the archipelagic territory is explored, and the qualities behind the places created by the men and women of the fishing tradition who live here are recognized.

Situaciones summarizes part of the work developed by the architecture and design office República Portátil between 2003 and 2018. The seven projects featured in this book are defined as "weak," temporary bodies—installations of varying scales positioned in the public realm to interact with and intervene in daily urban life.

A decade before Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn appeared on the Indian architectural scene, Golconde—the first example of pre-independence modern architecture—was being developed in an enclave of French India, Pondicherry, in 1938. Thirty years later, The Mother envisioned a new city, Auroville, named after Sri Aurobindo and dedicated to achieving human unity and understanding, serving as an example to the international community.

This book is a unique and iconic project that captures—in a format that enhances both written and graphic information—the essence of contemporary Chilean architecture. It serves as a comprehensive and detailed record that, beyond acting as a form of creative memoir of our heritage, allows us to understand the past, present, and future of architecture, our cities, and our country.

In her new work, Pandemic and Confinement Through the Eyes of an Architect, Marta Miret Rodríguez explores architecture by offering a perspective on how the profession viewed the situation experienced in 2020: a global pandemic.

Mark Wigley is a professor at GSAPP, Columbia University (New York), where he served as dean from 2004 to 2014. He has written extensively on the theory and practice of architecture. His books include: Passing Through Architecture: The 10 years of Gordon Matta-Clark; Cutting Matta-Clark: The Anarchitecture Investigation (2018); Buckminster Fuller INC: Architecture in the Age of Radio (2015); Casa da Musica / Porto (2008), Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper Architecture of Desire (1998), White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture (1995); and The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida’s Haunt (1995).

Francesca Hughes is an architectural theorist, educator, and specialist in the relationship between architecture and technology. She is the director of the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She has taught workshops and courses in history and theory at the Architectural Association and the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL in London, where she is from. She has also taught at The Berlage, TU Delft, and served as a visiting professor at KU Leuven in Belgium.

This study presents a rich field of intersections between the modern radical avant-garde—before and after the Situationist International—and social architecture projects centered on the lifestyles of Roma, southern migrants, and the urban lumpenproletariat. These are the very sites where various flamenco heterodoxies emerge, fostering new forms of habitability, symbolic production, and the reinvention of audiences, spaces, and places.

For some time, an entire generation of architect-educators has been exploring the real connections between the speculation inherent in design studios and the professional practices of those who lead them.

The Ugly is the first posthumous book by Mark Cousins (1947–2020), the renowned British cultural and architectural theorist and critic who sadly passed away a few months ago.

The book’s title is a provocation—an invitation to rethink landscape not as a given, but as something constructed through history, design, art, technique, representation, and experience, among other lenses.