Title & Author:

Latin American modern architectures : ambiguous territories / [edited by] Patricio del Real and Helen Gyger.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Description:

xi, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Kenneth Frampton -- Introduction : Ambiguous territories / Patricio del Real and Helen Gyger -- Lucio Costa's Luso-Brazilian routes : recalibrating "center" and "periphery" / Gaia Piccarolo -- "Corbusians" in Uruguay : a contradictory report / Jorge Nudelman Blejwas -- Mass culture at mid-century : architecture under a "new humanism" / Noemí Adagio -- Pre-Columbian skins, developmentalist souls : the architect as politician / Luis Castañeda -- Caracas's cultural (be)longings : retracing the troubled trajectories of the Superbloque experiment / Viviana d'Auria -- Monumentality and resignification : the UNCTAD III building in Chile / Daniel Talesnik -- A panel's tale : the Soviet I-464 system and the politics of assemblage / Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola Sagredo -- Argentina's Cuestión capital : founding a modern nation / Claudia Shmidt -- Modern frontiers : beyond Brasília, the Amazon / Paula Tavares -- Reflections of the "colonial" : between Mexico and Californiano / Cristina López Uribe -- Aviation, electrification, and the nation : visions from Colombia and Chile / Hugo Mondragón López -- Mario Pani's hospitatlitý : Latin America through Arquitectura/México / George F. Flaherty -- Technics and civilization : Félix Candela's geopolitical imaginary / María González Pendás.

Summary:

"Latin American Modern Architectures has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region's rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that haven't been written about in English. A foreword by historian Kenneth Frampton sets the stage for essays on well-known architects, such as Luis Barragán and Félix Candela, which will show you unfamiliar aspects of their work, and for essays on the work of little-known architects, such as Lucio Costa and Joaquim Cardozo, which will spark your creativity. This book is your best source for historical and critical essays on a sampling of Latin America's diverse architecture, providing much-needed information on key case studies"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780415893459 (hardback)
0415893453 (hardback)
9780415893466 (pb)
0415893461 (pb)
(ebook)
9780203101285
0203101286

Subject:

Architecture Latin America History.
Architecture Amérique latine Histoire.
ARCHITECTURE History Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
ARCHITECTURE History Contemporary (1945- )
ARCHITECTURE Individual Architects & Firms Essays.
Architecture.
Latin America.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Del Real, Patricio, 1966- editor.
Gyger, Helen, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 281006
Call No.: BIB 218107
Status: Available