MONUMENTA Magazine
MONUMENTA's free access e-zine was launched in March 2007. Six issues with over 200 articles have been published to date.
BIODIVERSITY / INTERCULTURALISM
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A Few Considerations on the Notion of Transculturation
Felipe Hernandez, lecturer in Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Liverpool The term transculturation, coined by the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, has been used as a generic term in order to examine issues relating to the cultural economy between peripheries and centres in general. Given the socio-political content inherent in the term transculturation, it offers ample opportunity to produce new methods of architectural analysis in order to cover the entire spectrum of architectural practices that constantly re-shape cities around the world.
