03315nam a2200337Ia 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023010001700064020002900081020002300110020002600133040003400159041000800193050002200201082002000223245011600243264003400359300005200393336002600445337002800471338002700499500002000526505132400546520077401870650006302644650007502707650006702782650008102849700003002930700001702960pucpr20200309165318.0012813s2012    nyua          001 0 eng    a  2012007233  a9780415893459 (hardback)  a9780415893466 (pb)  z9780203101285 (ebook)  apucprbengerdacpucprdpucpr  aspa00aNA702.5bL39 201300a720.98/090422300aLatin American modern architecturesbambiguous territoriesc[edited by] Patricio del Real and Helen Gyger.htxt  aNew York : b Routledgec2013  axi, 301 pagesbillustrations, mapsc27 cmfbook  2rdacontentbtxtatext  2rdamediabnaunmediaded  2rdacarrierbncavolume  aIncludes index.  aContents:	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.  a"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"-- 0aArchitecturezLatin AmericaxHistoryy20th century.2Local 7aARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / Essays.2bisacsh2Local 7aARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-).2bisacsh2Local 7aARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945).2bisacsh2Local1 aDel Real, Patriciod1966-1 aGyger, Helen