Main entry:

Herzog, Lawrence A. (Lawrence Arthur)

Title & Author:

From Aztec to high tech : architecture and landscape across the Mexico-United States border / Lawrence A. Herzog.

Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Description:

xiv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Creating the North American landscape

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.
1. Introduction: Landscapes of the Transcultural City -- 2. "Aztec": The Mexican Urban Landscape -- 3. The Journey North: A History of Mexican Architecture on the California Border -- 4. El Otro Lado: In Search of Mexican Landscapes in the Southwestern United States -- 5. High Tech? The Cultural Landscapes of North American Economic Integration -- 6. Culture and Place: The Border Architects Speak -- 7. From Aztec to High Tech.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

From Aztec to High Tech explores the architectural future of interdependent neighbors who share a history, an economy, and a landscape. After reviewing three key periods in Mexico's three thousand-year-old architectural past - indigenous, Spanish colonial, and modern - urban planning scholar Lawrence A. Herzog focuses on the border territories of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, particularly in California.
Through eighty black-and-white photographs and interviews with architects from both sides of the border, this engaging book provides a compelling picture of how traditional Mexican architecture has intersected with the postindustrial, high-tech urban style of the United States - a mix that offers an alternative to the homogenization of architecture north of the international border.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801860091 (alk. paper)
9780801860096 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and society Mexico, North.
Architecture and society Southwest, New.
Architecture Mexico, North Influence.
Mexican American architecture Southwest, New.
Architecture et société Mexique (Nord)
Architecture Mexique (Nord) Influence.
Architecture et société États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest)
Architecture and society.
Architecture Influence.
International relations.
Mexican American architecture.
Architektur
Grenzgebiet
Mexico, North Relations Southwest, New.
Southwest, New Relations Mexico, North.
Mexique (Nord) Relations États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest)
États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest) Relations Mexique (Nord)
North Mexico.
New Southwest.
Mexiko
USA.

Added entries:

Creating the North American landscape.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204781
Call No.: NA2543 .S6 H48 1999
Status: Available