Introduction: Expanding and diversifying the field of adaptive reuse José Bernardi
Topic I Whose Memories, whose values? The search for identity
1. Whose memories, whose values? Reflecting on the spatial history of the Americas. Fernando Luiz Lara
2. Open Work as a seed for change in adaptive reuse Ana Etkin
3. Essential Documentation: Lucio Costa and the Modernist Missionary Catherine Seavitt Nordenson
4. From a project of modernization to a strategy of community building Monica Bertolino
Topic II Other Modernities
5. Housing Policies in Brazil and Dwellers perspectives, a Comparative Study
Ana Paula Koury
6. Renovation and reuse in Brazil: Cases in Sao Paulo, Bahia and Porto Alegre
Marta Peixoto
7. Adaptive Reuse in Brazil: Lessons from Lina Bo Bardi
Isabella Trindade, and Ana Luisa Rolim
8. Resilient spaces: modern and historic legacy in Brazilian built heritage
Cláudia Costa Cabral
Topic III Perpetual Transformations: Adaptive Reuse in Mexico City
9. Mexican Iconoclasms: From the Post-Revolutionary Era to the 1980s
Cristóbal Jácome-Moreno
10. Exhibiting Contemporary Art in a Colonial Context at the Ex Santa Teresa in Mexico City
Derek Burdette
11. Cosmologies of Ruins and Ruination: Infrastructures and the Anthropocene
Christopher Morehart
Topic IV Places of Defiance and Resilience
12. How body memory “actualizes” to the architectural heritage the Latin American dwelling as the new public space
Diana Maldonado
13. Hidden Landscapes of Palimpsestic Urban Memories: The Case of Lima, Peru
Kathryn Golda- Pongratz
14. Reversing neo-Plantations: From Guayusa Monocultures to Chakras and Managed Forests in Mushullakta
Ana María Durán Calisto
15. Matachín Codex Complex
Cristóbal Martínez
José Bernardi is associate professor in The Design School at The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. His work is focused on modern and contemporary design and architecture in Latin America.