Panel and Book Presentation: Buenos Aires: El Poder de la Anticipación, with M. Gutman, R. Doberti and J.P. Feinmann at Casa Nacional del Bicentenarrio, Buenos Aires
August 10, 2011 · Casa Nacional del Bicentenario - Buenos Aires
This is the first book that comprehensively examines the imagination of the urban future in Buenos Aires. The volume contains 185 selected visual images selected from 7,150 local and foreign journals, professional and specialized mass media, which were circulating in Buenos Aires between 1900 and 1920. Their diversity, creativity, humor and excitement expresses the many expectations people of Buenos Aires had about a promising urban future.
Speakers:
- Roberto Doberti, Ph.D., Architect and Professor at Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo-Universidad de Buenos Aires (download Doberti's presentation)
- José Pablo Feinmann, philosopher, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter (Read Feinmann's comment on the book)
Author:
- Margarita Gutman, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and International Affairs, NSGS