Descripción
This book summarizes a journey of 100.000 kilometers unfolding over 26 trips that took place over the course of somewhat over two years. Its aim is to provide evidence to rescue and portray the surviving pieces of successive layers of cultural and natural heritage, threading a necklace of territorially scattered gems, often separated by great distances. Argentina’s cultural heritage was gradually built up on the basis of an extremely complex and stubborn collective human undertaking that required much work. Its materialization condenses individual and community wishes from a number of generations. Thus, a highly unique set has been assembled, of great variety and wealth, the fruit of permanent admixtures and in a constant dialectic with the landscape. From the remains of pre-Columbian settlements until the development unfolding at the end of the twentieth century, this heritage offers innumerable cultural assets on diverse scales which deserve to be apreciated anew. It is all there, everywhere archeological sites of different cultures, architectural monuments in various styles, urban centers of diverse sizes, singular meshes of buildings, vernacular architecture created with all manner of materials, cultural landscapes derived from industrial establishments of many origins, equipment and infrastructure woeks of diverse kinds.
