Lilliana Ramos-Collado

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Dear colleagues, any suggestions for books or similar materials regarding qualitative research methods in architecture and urbanism?

Many architecture MA students at my university wish to probe into aspects of urbanism related to how people interact with urban plans, urban realities, architecture. They also would like to...

17 April 2016 5,302 33 View

There is a worldwide destruction of nature and landscapes. How has this destruction come about? Who wins/ loses from it? How can we stop it? Can we?

Every day a vernacular landscape dies. Every day, the abusive exploitation of land is literally erasing the landscape so its occupants can no longer live from the land. This situation has...

12 April 2016 5,167 28 View

Is public art "public"? Is it art? Who's its owner/its public? What does it mean? We need it? Who will preserve it? Can any such artwork be universal?

With respect to “public art,” an examination of the state of the question points to at least two ways in which that concept may be defined, two “circles” within which it may fall: It may be...

07 February 2016 1,448 35 View

Le Corbusier: "There is no such thing as primitive man. There are primitive resources. The idea is constant, strong from the start." Any comments?

The idea of the "primitive" and of a "primitive man" has held sway through the centuries. Could we fairly say, based on recent archaeological findings, anthropological research, and cultural...

15 January 2016 7,942 35 View