Umfang:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781136234422
Inhalt:
Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories includes new essays from a range of architectural historians to help you understand the region's rich and varied architecture, including major projects that haven't been written about in English
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Ambiguous Territories -- Part I: SINGULAR JOURNEYS -- 1 Lucio Costa's Luso-Brazilian Routes Recalibrating "Center" and "Periphery" -- 2 "Corbusians" in Uruguay A Contradictory Report -- 3 Mass Culture at Mid-Century Architecture under a "New Humanism" -- Part II: TECHNO-CULTURAL ASSEMBLAGES -- 4 Pre-Columbian Skins, Developmentalist Souls The Architect as Politician -- 5 Caracas's Cultural (Be)longings Retracing the Troubled Trajectories of the Superbloque Experiment -- 6 Monumentality and Resignification The UNCTAD III Building in Chile -- 7 A Panel's Tale The Soviet I-464 System and the Politics of Assemblage -- 8 Argentina's Cuestión Capital Founding a Modern Nation -- 9 Modern Frontiers Beyond Brasília, the Amazon -- Part III: MEDIATED TERRITORIES -- 10 Reflections of the "Colonial" Between Mexico and Californiano -- 11 Aviation, Electrification, and the Nation Visions from Colombia and Chile -- 12 Mario Pani's Hospitality Latin America through Arquitectura/México -- 13 Technics and Civilization Félix Candela's Geopolitical Imaginary -- Image Credits -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version del Real, Patricio Latin American Modern Architectures Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415893459
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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