Building the new world studies in the modern architecture of Latin America, 1930-1960 Valerie Fraser. txt

Por:

Fraser, Valerie

Idioma: Inglés London ; New York : Verso 2000Descripción: vii, 280 p., [16] p. of plates ill. (some col.) 20 cmTipo de contenido:

text

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unmediaded

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volume

ISBN:

1859843077 (pbk.)
9781859843079
1859847870

Tema(s):

Modern movement Architecture -- Latin America

Clasificación CDD:

720/.98/0904 21

Clasificación LoC:

NA702.5 F73 2000

Contenidos:

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

Resumen: "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

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The period between 1930 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.

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

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CHOICE Review

Despite the obvious problems of summarizing the history of Latin American modern architecture in a single work, this book offers a desperately needed introduction to general polemics and key participants of the modern architectural movement in Latin America. Fraser (Univ. of Essex) presents a general chronology of architectural developments and tendencies in three countries of Latin America: Mexico, Venezuela, and Brazil. These three countries historically have been considered the most important in the development of a regional architectural solution to European modernism. By translating certain localized concerns (political and cultural), this architecture--positioned as a social and redemptive aesthetic medium--is seen as an optimistic solution to the problems of modernization (cultural, economic, etc.) that faced Latin American countries. Fraser also carefully considers the importance of modern urban planning and policies in relationship to those concerns. In addition to these issues, the book frames general debates and positions regarding the study of this architecture and period and offers a good general bibliography of (primarily) secondary sources that might serve as an invaluable introduction to more research opportunities and general library acquisition. General readers; undergraduates. L. E. Carranza Roger Williams University

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Valerie Fraser is a Reader in the Department of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex. Her books include Building the New World, The Architecture of Conquest, and, with Oriana Baddeley, Drawing the Line .

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