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In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. Published in conjunction with a new exhibition that revisits the region on the 60th anniversary of that important show, Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 offers a complex overview of the positions, debates, and architectural creativity from Mexico and Cuba to the Southern Cone between 1955 and the early 1980s. The publication features a wealth of original materials that have never before been brought together to illustrate a period of self-questioning, exploration and complex political shifts that saw the emergence of the notion of Latin America as a landscape of development. Richly illustrated with architectural drawings, vintage photographs, sketches and newly commissioned photographs, the catalogue presents the work of architects who met the challenges of modernization with innovative formal, urbanistic and programmatic solutions. Today, when Latin America is again providing exciting and challenging architecture and urban responses, Latin America in Construction brings this vital post-war period to light.

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This exhibition catalogue by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is the first work by that institution to comprehensively address the architecture and urbanism of Latin America since the last exhibition it held on the topic in 1955. The catalogue focuses on work produced between 1955 and 1980 during what the exhibition's curators define as the period of "developmentalism" following WW II and ending with neoliberal government policies of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The catalogue begins with overview essays by the three principal curators. These are followed by an alphabetical listing of countries with concise essays by scholars of those countries, architectural drawings, photographic images, and short notes on important projects. The book concludes with a general bibliography and bibliographic section, also organized alphabetically by country, with short descriptions that address significant historiographic developments particular to each. Generously and comprehensively illustrated with historical and contemporary images of the most important work produced in Latin America, the catalogue is an important resource for understanding the modern architecture of the area and an essential account of the historic MoMA exhibition in 2015. Summing Up: Essential. All readership levels. --Luis E. Carranza, Roger Williams University

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Barry Bergdollis the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and served as the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA from 2007 to 2013. He has been praised for "activist's sense of urgency and an academic's insistence on rigor." He is the author of European Architecture 1750-1890(Oxford University Press, 200) in addition to the MoMA catalogues for Henri Labrouste, Home Deliveryand Mies in Berlin. In his ongoing role as a part-time curator at MoMA, he is preparing an exhibition on Brazillian architect Lina BoBardi.

Carlos Eduardo Comasis Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Jorge Francisco Liernuris Professor and former dean of the architecture school at The Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Patricio del Realis a Curatorial Assistant at The Museum of Modern Art, New York