02887nam a2200301Ia 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023010001700064020002200081020001800103020001500121040003400136041000800170050002200178082002100200100002100221245011300242264003800355300006700393336002600460337002800486338002700514500001900541504006600560505092200626520098101548650005602529pucpr20200309153718.0130510s2000    enkaf    b    001 0 eng d  a  2001274909  a1859843077 (pbk.)  a9781859843079  a1859847870  apucprbengerdacpucprdpucpr0 aeng00aNA702.5bF73 200000a720/.98/09042211 aFraser, Valerie.10aBuilding the new worldbstudies in the modern architecture of Latin America, 1930-1960cValerie Fraser.htxt  aLondon ; New York : bVersoc2000  avii, 280 p., [16] p. of platesbill. (some col.)c20 cm.fbook  2rdacontentbtxtatext  2rdamediabnaunmediaded  2rdacarrierbncavolume  aInclude index.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [274]-276) and index.  aContets:

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

  a"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 0aModern movement ArchitecturezLatin America.2Local