Latin America: Perspectives on the Point of Meeting of Civilizations

Abstract

The past few years have witnessed a number of migration processes to and from America; in addition, the present crisis has drawn attention mostly to Latin America, which has remained economically stable while other powerful countries have fallen before it. However, this is not the only reason attention is being drawn towards Latin America. During the migration flows in the early Twentieth Century, Latin America was the destination of many Europeans and Asians, and the new home of those brought by force from Africa in the previous century. These circumstances have generated cities and the different contemporary contexts, to which architects and urban planners must respond in order to give or continue to give a sense of identity that has been built due to the variety of cultures found across the continent. To illustrate this, different perspectives by guests to the 9th International Seminar on Architecture entitled América: Cruce de Civilizaciones, arranged by the Universidad Piloto de Colombia in 2012 are shown.