Natalia Solano-Meza

Architect, teacher, architectural historian

Texts

ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE

Solano-Meza, Natalia, Jose Daniel Picado Gacía, Tensions On Display at the Costa Rican Architecture Biennale: Interplays Between Expanding Practices and the Institutionalization of Architectural Exhibitions in Costa Rica, 1992–2022i, 2025, Architecture and Culture

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ARCHITECTURAL THEORY REVIEW

Solano-Meza Natalia, Alemán Gustavo, Ramírez Valeria, Agents of Territorial Transformation in the Costa Rican Caribbean: Imperial Relationships and Practices of Spatial Governance at the United Fruit Enclave, 1870–1940, 2025, Architectural Theory Review

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ACADEMIA XXII, UNAM

Salazar Aguilar Jeremy, Solano-Meza, Natalia, Desde el Flux: Estrategias proyectuales de Franz Beer Chaverri, 2024, Revista Academia XXII, Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 

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DIALOGOS, REVISTA DE HISTORIA, UCR

Solano-Meza, Natalia, Durán Segura Luis Armando Arquitectura, progreso y realidad nacional en el proyecto de investigación de Ofelia Sanou Alfaro, 2024, Revista Electrónica de Historia Diálogos, 25.1

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REVISTA DE FILOSOFIA UCR

Solano-Meza, Natalia, Arquitectura bananera, degradación ambiental, e imágenes de violencia espacial en el Caribe costarricense, 2023, Revista De Filosofía de la Universidad De Costa Rica, 62(163), 189–205

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BIBLIO 3W, UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA

Durán Segura Luis Armando, Solano-Meza, Natalia, Ofelia Sanou: Aportes a la historia de la ciudad de San José, 2023, Biblio3W, Revista Bibliográfica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales, Universitat de Barcelona, España .

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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

Solano-Meza, Natalia, Pedagogic Practices at the University of Costa Rica, 2022, in The Routledge Companion to Architectural Education of the Global South, eds. Harriet Harriss, Ashraf M. Salama, & Ane Gonzalez Lara.

ANALES DEL INSTITUO DE INVESTIGACIONES ESTETICAS, UNAM

García Picado, Jose Daniel, Solano-Meza, Natalia, Exhibir lo Tropical: Imágenes en la VIII Bienal Estudiantil de Costa Rica, Fall 2022, Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM. 

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DRAMATIC ARCHITECTURES, CENTRO DE ESTUDOS ARNALDO ARAUJO,, ESAP

Solano-Meza, Natalia, Searching for dissidence in the School of Architecture at the University of Costa Rica: performative arts and architecture’s boundaries, 2021, in Dramatic Architectures, Theater and Performative Arts in Motion, edited by Jorge Palinhos, Josefina González Cubero, Luísa Pinto.

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ABE JOURNAL, INHA, FR

Solano-Meza, Natalia, Aesthetics of Comfort: A Third Moment in Costa Rican Histories of Tropical Architecture, Spring 2020, in Entanglements of Architecture and Comfort, (special editors Jiat-Hwee Chang and Daniel J. Ryan). Architecture Beyond Europe Journal. FULL TEXT

REVISTA BITACORA ARQUITECTURA, UNAM

Solano-Meza, Natalia, Narrativas del ambiente tropical y la consolidación de ciertos discursos disciplinares en la revista Habitar (Costa Rica, 1990-2012), Revista Bitácora Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Número 43, 2019, pages  110-117 FULL TEXT.

DEARQ. UNIANDES

Solano-Meza, Natalia, Hopes and Failures of a Computer-School: The School of Architecture at the Universidad de Costa Rica 1971-1979, Other Computations, (special eds. Daniel Cardoso Llach and Andrés Burbano) DEARQ, Facultad de Arquitectura y Diseño, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, Volumen 27, July, 2020, pages 37-49 FULL TEXT


REVISTA AREA,UBA

Solano-Meza, Natalia, From Tropical Architecture to Teaching Methods. Notes on the role of Dr. Otto H. Koenigsberger in the development of the  Escuela de Arquitectura at the Universidad de Costa Rica, RevistaArea-Agenda de Reflexión Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, October, 2018, pages. 163-177. FULL TEXT

CHARRETTE, JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATORS

Solano-Meza, Natalia, Against a pedagogical colonization: The case of the School of Architecture at the University of Costa Rica, Journal: Charrette, The Journal of Architecture Educators, Autumn, 2017, pages 40-58. FULL TEXT

FABRICATIONS, SAHANZ

Solano-Meza, Natalia, Tropical Dissidence: The Creation of the School of Architecture of the University of Costa Rica at the Department of Development and Tropical Studies, Journal: Fabrications, the Journal of the Society of Architecture Historians of Australia and New Zealand, Volume 27 (issue 2),2017,  pages 177-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2017.1297065


Lunch. University of Virginia, US.

Solano-Meza Natalia, The land of Abundance: Six possible points of convergence between territory and excess in San José Costa Rica, Lunch The Design-Research Journal of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, Volume 9, 2014

DOMUS CENTRAL AMERICA

Solano-Meza Natalia, Notes about landscape and architecture in the region. Editorial for Domus Magazine, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.