The Calabozo | Virtual Reconstruction of a Prison Cell Based on Personal Accounts

Carmen Aroztegui Massera

ISBN 10: 363942168X / ISBN 13: 9783639421682

Published by AV Akademikerverlag, 2012

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The Calabozo | Virtual Reconstruction of a Prison Cell Based on Personal Accounts | Carmen Aroztegui Massera | Taschenbuch | 244 S. | Englisch | 2012 | AV Akademikerverlag | EAN 9783639421682 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Calabozo | Virtual Reconstruction of a Prison Cell Based on Personal Accounts
• Publisher: AV Akademikerverlag
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 363942168X
• ISBN 13: 9783639421682
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 16D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 381 grams
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Synopsis

Revision with unchanged content. Virtual reconstructions of imaginary places traditionally focus only on the modeling of physical architectural features -geometry, proportionality, and measurement. Other elements that could communicate the subjective expe-riencing of the place are often relegated to second priority. In this book I approach virtual reconstruction from a cinematic perspective integrating narrative, light modeling and sound and address the subjective experiencing of a the memories Uruguayan women have of the cala-bozo (solitary confinement cell). In June of 2002, I went to Uruguay and interviewed nine female former poli-tical prisoners of the Uruguayan dictatorship (1973-85). My research aimed at relating their experience of prison through a video installation based on these women's personal stories of the calabozo. This book is the product of my research over a period of five years and is intended mainly to social scientists such as architects, archaeologists, film and video scholars. However, the visualization of the calabozo experience aims at a general public. It creates a symbolic place -a memorial- to each of these women, individually and collectively. The women of the calabozo embody the extraordinary power of the human spirit we all have.

About the Author

Carmen Aroztegui Massera, is an Architect from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay, has a Master of Science from the University of Utah, USA and a PhD from Texas A&M University, USA. Since 2006 she teaches at the School of Architecture of Universidad ORT, Uruguay. She specializes in visualization in architecture.