Building the new world studies in the modern architecture of Latin America, 1930-1960 txt
Valerie Fraser.
- vii, 280 p., [16] p. of plates ill. (some col.) 20 cm. book
Include index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-276) and index.
Contets:
Preaface and Acknoledements
Introduction
The Modern Movement in architecture aud urbanism Translating European theory into Latin American practice The USA and latin American Practice The USA and Latin American Modern Architecture Building new worlds
MEXICO
Vascocelos, Muralism and noecolonial Architecture Architecture and revolution Social Housing The Ciudad Universitaria Parallel currents
VENEZUELA Ecleticism under Gómez and beyond El Silencio Centro Bolivar The Banco Obrero superblocks of the 1950 The Caracas Metro: urban integration BRAZIL Rio de Janeiro and Beyond The urban evolution of the Ministerio da Educacao e Saúde building Theorigins of modern architecture in Rio Niemeyer and Kubischeck at Pampulha Social housing in Rio de Janeiro Cidade Universitariá Cidade dos Motores
Brasilia The Origins Brasilia Failure and of Brasilia
Aftermath
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
"Brasilia, Caracas, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro ... cities synonymous with some of the most innovative and progressive architecture of the past century. The period between 1939 and 1960 in particular saw a dramatic upsurge in Latin American modern architecture as the various governments strove to make public their modernising intentions. After 1960, however, the year in which Brasilia was inaugurated, economic growth in the region slowed and the modernist project faltered. The English-speaking world, which had previously admired Latin American buildings, began to write them out of the history of twentieth-century architecture. Building the New World attempts to redress the balance. It surveys the most important examples of state-funded modernism in Latin America during a period of almost unimaginable optimism, when politicians and architects such as Pani, Costa, Reidy and Niemeyer sought ways, literally, to build their societies out of underdevelopment."--Jacket