TY  - BOOK
AU  - Del Real,Patricio
AU  - Gyger,Helen
TI  - Latin American modern architectures: ambiguous territories
SN  - 9780415893459 (hardback)
AV  - NA702.5 L39 2013
U1  - 720.98/0904 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York : 
PB  -  Routledge
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Latin America
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Local
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / Essays
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-)
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
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