History & Culture – Revista Landuum

The Terrace, a Viewpoint towards the Landscape

March 27, 2020
By Arq. Ivonne Walls

A terrace is an external area that is open and flat, it is used, either as an integral element of the landscape, as an extension at the top of a building, or at ground level supported by an embankment or a solid base (whether natural or artificial). …

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LWCircus, Resilient Creative Community

March 9, 2020
By Emanuela Paglia

There are professionals who carry out experimental methods and
design strategies based on social and cultural practices of the specific
place in which they operate, aiming at improving sensitive areas and
redesigning the rural and contemporary urban landscape in transition.
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History & Culture

The Regional Botanical Garden “Roger Orellana” of the Scientific Research Center of Yucatán

February 10, 2020
By Lilia Carrillo, Clarisa Jimenez y Roger Orellana

Yucatán’s peninsula has very characteristic natural landscapes composed of diverse types of tropical vegetation. It is calculated that their flora has more than 2,500 species. …

History & Culture / Interventions

My Environment, Learning Scenario

January 20, 2020
By Adriana Ancona y Gilberto Mireles

The word “landscape” evokes the paintings made by artists who have materialized on a canvas what they have observed in a valley, a lake, a river, a city, or a village. In other words, what they have observed in a landscape. …

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THE LANDSCAPE AS A TEACHING RESOURCE

January 13, 2020
By Arq. Ivonne Walls

The landscape is the place and its image, is the form taken by geographical facts plus their perceptions, interpretations and cultural representations. …

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Pedagogical farms: reflection spaces for the ecological transition

December 30, 2019
By Marianela Porraz Castillo

Derived from the phenomenon of food industrialization, during the twentieth century many people began to lose contact with the natural cycles, and how food was produced. …

History & Culture / Interventions

The yard of my house: Historical and cultural landscape of cities

November 4, 2019
By Mariana González Abundes

The exterior spaces that we build and inhabit, including the patios and residential gardens, often reflect in its configuration cultural aspects of its inhabitants. …

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The courtyard: heritage and tradition of domestic open spaces since antiquity

October 18, 2019
By Jacqueline Tapia

One of the main contributions of cultural landscape consists of valuing humanity’s legacy, beyond monumental …

History & Culture

The Courtyard: An opening to heaven

September 27, 2019
By Arq. Ivonne Walls

Potography: Santiago López

The courtyard is a primary space and structuring center of buildings, both public and private, which, since time immemorial and in virtually all cultures, has been used for various purposes, …