Latin American modern architectures ambiguous territories txt
[edited by] Patricio del Real and Helen Gyger.
- xi, 301 pages illustrations, maps 27 cm book
Includes index.
Contents: Introduction : Ambiguous territories / Patricio del Real and Helen Gyger -- Lucio Costa's Luso-Brzailian routes : recalibrating "center" and "periphery" / Gaia Piccarolo -- "Corbusians" in Uruguay : a contradictory report / Jorge Nudelman Blejwas -- Mass culture at mid-century : architecture under a "new humanism" / Noemí Adagio -- Pre-Columbian skins, developmentalist souls : the architect as politician / Luis Castañeda -- Caracas's cultural (be)longings : retracing the troubled trajectories of the Superbloque experiment / Viviana d'Auria -- Monumentality and resignification : the UNCTAD III building in Chile / Daniel Talesnik -- A panel's tale : the Soviet I-464 system and the politics of assemblage / Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola Sagredo -- Argentina's Cuestión capital : founding a modern nation / Claudia Shmidt -- Modern frontiers : beyond Brasília, the Amazon / Paula Tavares -- Reflections of the "colonial" : between Mexico and Californiano / Cristina López Uribe -- Aviation, electrification, and the nation : visions from Colombia and Chile / Hugo Mondragón López -- Mario Pani's hospitatlitý : Latin America through Arquitectura/México / George F. Flaherty -- Technics and civilization : Félix Candela's geopolitical imaginary / María González Pendás.
"Latin American Modern Architectures has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region's rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that haven't been written about in English. A foreword by historian Kenneth Frampton sets the stage for essays on well-known architects, such as Luis Barragán and Félix Candela, which will show you unfamiliar aspects of their work, and for essays on the work of little-known architects, such as Lucio Costa and Joaquim Cardozo, which will spark your creativity. This book is your best source for historical and critical essays on a sampling of Latin America's diverse architecture, providing much-needed information on key case studies"--
9780415893459 (hardback) 9780415893466 (pb)
2012007233
Architecture--History--Latin America--20th century. ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / Essays. ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-). ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945).