Texts

Featured publications, and full complete list below.

Book Chapter

Pedagogic Practices at the University of Costa Rica

in The Routledge Companion to Architectural Education of the Global South, eds. Harriet Harriss, Ashraf M. Salama, & Ane Gonzalez Lara (2022).

Cover image credits: Mapping produced by KoTA (Jana Cloete, Azraa Gabru, Sarah Harding, Jackson Chanje, Karabo Moumakwe, Thelma Ndebele, Gloria Pavita, Izak Potgieter), 2019.

Texts:


Revista de Filosofía, UCR, San José Costa Rica.

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 FULL TEXT


Biblio 3W, Revista Bibliográfica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

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. FULL TEXT


Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM, Mexico.

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. FULL TEXT


Dramatic Architectures, Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo, ESAP, Portugal.

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. FULL TEXT


ABE Journal.

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. https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.8146


Revista Bitácora UNAM, México.

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 http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/fa.14058901p.2020.43.72949


Dearq. University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

Solano-Meza, Natalia, Hopes and Failures of a Computer-School: The School of Architecture at the Universidad de Costa Rica 1971-1979,

in Other Computations, (special editors Daniel Cardoso Llach and Andrés Burbano) DEARQ, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, Volumen 27, July, 2020, pages 37-49 FULL TEXT


RevistaÁrea, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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 en Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, October, 2018, pages. 163-177. FULL TEXT


Charrette Journal, Journal of Architectural Educators, UK.

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, Australia and New Zealand.

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 for Mexico and Central America.

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