Main entry:

Cruaut ̌ & utopie. English.

Title & Author:

Cruelty & utopia : cities and landscapes of Latin America / Jean-Franȯis Lejeune, editor.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.

Description:

263 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Originally published in connection with an exhibition at the CIVA in Brussels, May 22-Oct. 5, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Herve Hasquin -- From the city of the Caesars to the demystified city / Christophe Pourtois -- Reflections on Spain and the New World / Carlos Fuentes -- The laws of the Indies : ordinances for the discovery, the population, and the pacification of the Indies [excerpts] / Philip II, King of Spain 1573 -- Dreams of order : utopia, cruelty, and modernity / Jean-Francois Lejeune -- Quito : city and landscape between utopia and reality / Eduardo Baez -- City and landscape in the construction of Brazil / Carlos Martins -- The virgin of the Andes / Carol Damian -- Writing and cities / Eduardo Subirats -- Le Corbusier : Latin American traces / Fernando Perez Oyarzun -- Spaces of hybridization : the house of the architect : Luis Barragan, Lina Bo Bardi, Juan O'Gorman, Oscar Niemeyer, and Carlos Raul Villanueva / Felipe Hernandez -- Marvel, monster, myth : the modern city in Latin American literature / Rebecca E. Biron -- The pearl of the Antilles : Havana's tropical shadows and utopias / Roberto Segre -- A metropolis in the Pampas : Buenos Aires 1890-1940 / Adrian Gorelik -- When Brazil was modern : from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia / Lauro Cavalcanti -- Report from Brazil / Carlos E. Comas -- Roberto Burle Marx : the city as landscape / Jacques Leenhardt -- Lina Bo Bardi : toward an architecture without borders / Olivia de Oliveira -- Modernity and nationalism : Juan O'Gorman and post-revolutionary architecture in Mexico, 1920-1960 / Edward R. Burian -- Settings for history and oblivion in modern Mexico, 1942-1958 : the city as imagined by Juan O'Gorman, Luis Barragan, Mathias Goeritz, and Mario Pani / Keith L. Eggener -- Toward the visibility of the invisible : notes on Caracas, modernity, and the university city of Caracas by Carlos Raul Villanueva / Enrique Larranaga -- Ensalada Tijuana? : welcome to the gritty landscape of globalization / Roberto A. Gonzalez.
Edited by Jean-François Lejeune.

Summary:

"This landmark collection of illustrated essays explores the vastly underappreciated history of America's other cities - the great metropolises found south of our borders in Central and South America."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

1568984898 (alk. paper)
9781568984896 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Latin America.
City planning Latin America.
Architecture Amérique latine.
Architecture
City planning
Latin America
Architecture - Latin America.
Cityscape.
Town and country planning.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Lejeune, Jean-Franȯis.
Centre international pour la ville, l'architecture et le paysage.

Cruelty and utopia

Holdings:

Location: Library main 237745
Call No.: NA702 .C78 2005
Status: Available