Latin American Modern Architectures

Author : Patricio del Real,Helen Gyger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136234422

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Latin American Modern Architectures by Patricio del Real,Helen Gyger Pdf

Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories 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 have not been written about in English. A foreword by historian Kenneth Frampton sets the stage for essays on well-known architects, such as Lucio Costa and Félix Candela, which will show you unfamiliar aspects of their work, and for essays on the work of little-known figures, such as Uruguayan architect Carlos Gómez Gavazzo and Peruvian architect and politician Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Covering urban and territorial histories from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, along with detailed building analyses, 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. Contributors include Noemí Adagio, Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Luis Castañeda, Viviana d’Auria, George F. Flaherty, María González Pendás, Cristina López Uribe, Hugo Mondragón López, Jorge Nudelman Blejwas, Hugo Palmarola Sagredo, Gaia Piccarolo, Claudia Shmidt, Daniel Talesnik, and Paulo Tavares.

Author : Luis E. Carranza,Fernando Luiz Lara
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292762978

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Modern Architecture in Latin America by Luis E. Carranza,Fernando Luiz Lara Pdf

Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that represent the complex processes of political, economic, and cultural modernization in the twentieth century. The number and types of projects varied greatly from country to country, but, as a whole, the region produced a significant body of architecture that has never before been presented in a single volume in any language. Modern Architecture in Latin America is the first comprehensive history of this important production. Designed as a survey and focused on key examples/paradigms arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this volume covers a myriad of countries; historical, social, and political conditions; and projects/developments that range from small houses to urban plans to architectural movements. The book is structured so that it can be read in a variety of ways—as a historically developed narrative of modern architecture in Latin America, as a country-specific chronology, or as a treatment of traditions centered on issues of art, technology, or utopia. This structure allows readers to see the development of multiple and parallel branches/historical strands of architecture and, at times, their interconnections across countries. The authors provide a critical evaluation of the movements presented in relationship to their overall goals and architectural transformations.

Author : Ana de Brea
Publisher : Actar
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 194029147X

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Total Latin American Architecture by Ana de Brea Pdf

This book is not about a folk or typical Latin American architecture. Latin America is not some faraway, isolated region, rather a huge and universal laboratory. It shows a different Latin America through its recent architecture, which flourishes in our time of global communications. It does have roots in the past; but does not appeal to nostalgia. Architecture thought for the present and designed for the near future. Total Latin American Architecture intends to communicate a targeted objective, to circumscribe a segment, a series of observations and actions in architecture.

Author : Valerie Fraser
Publisher : Verso
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1859847870

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Building the New World by Valerie Fraser Pdf

Brasilia, Caracas, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro ... these are cities synonymous with some of the most innovative and progressive architecture of the twentieth century. The period between 1930 and 1960 in particular, when many Latin American economies expanded rapidly, was an era of incomparable inventiveness and creative production, as the various governments strove to shake off their colonial pasts and make public their modernising intentions. This book focuses on major state-funded architectural projects, featuring not only the high-profile prestigious building like the House of Representatives in Barsilia but also social architecture such as schools and los-cost housing developments. Architects like Pani, Costa, Reidy and Niemeyer, who undertook this work with considerable autonomy and significant financial resources, in effect became social planners, their avant-garde aesthetic and technical experimentation often being teamed with radical social agendas. By 1960, the year in which Brasilia was inaugurated, economic growth in the region was slowing and faith in the modernist project in general was faltering. The English-speaking world, which had previously endorsed and even envied Latin American architectural production, changed its opinion and largely dismissed it from the history of twentieth-century architecture. Building the New World redresses the balance. It provides an accessible introduction to the most important examples of state-funded modernism in Latin America during a period of almost unimaginable optimism, when politicians and architects saw architecture as, literally, a way of building themselves out of underdevelopment and into the new world of a culturally rich and socially inclusive future .

Author : Ana de Brea
Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780989331722

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Total Latin American Architecture by Ana de Brea Pdf

A selected, fully open, and deep assemblage, that carries the explicit intent of outlining, conceptual and practical verifications, on critical views and specific projects, concerning the actual architecture in the Latin American territory. The book intends to communicate a targeted objective, to circumscribe a segment, a series of observations and actions in architecture. However, it is a selected, fully open, and deep fragment, outlining conceptual and practical verifications on critical views and concrete projects, concerning the actual, extensive world of architecture in the Latin American territory, and in the first years of the new century. It is a sequence of topical segments organized as an unsystematic series and through a number of different projects in each case: the single family house; searches on bigger scales; poetical structures; topics under consideration; a look over laboratories; terrain, landscape and topography; covering folk factors; and the volumetric reasoning and physical features. A selected and deep assemblage of the current architecture in the Latin American territory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architectural photography
ISBN : 3037785039

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A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture by Anonim Pdf

Latin American Modern Architecture is part of an ongoing series by one of the leading architectural photographers worldwide. It presents nearly eighty images of Finotti's photographic vision of undiscovered Latin American modern architecture and offers an important overview of the region.

Author : Malcolm Quantrill
Publisher : Studies in Architecture and Cu
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007226265

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Latin American Architecture by Malcolm Quantrill Pdf

In doing so, the artists reveal the two major schools of development: minimalist and tectonic tradition."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Henry-Russell Hitchcock,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : [New York] : Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Arno Press, 1972 [c1955]
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:49015001190298

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Latin American Architecture Since 1945 by Henry-Russell Hitchcock,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Justin McGuirk
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781688687

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Radical Cities by Justin McGuirk Pdf

What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving. Ever since the mid twentieth century, when the dream of modernist utopia went to Latin America to die, the continent has been a testing ground for exciting new conceptions of the city. An architect in Chile has designed a form of social housing where only half of the house is built, allowing the owners to adapt the rest; Medellín, formerly the world’s murder capital, has been transformed with innovative public architecture; squatters in Caracas have taken over the forty-five-story Torre David skyscraper; and Rio is on a mission to incorporate its favelas into the rest of the city. Here, in the most urbanised continent on the planet, extreme cities have bred extreme conditions, from vast housing estates to sprawling slums. But after decades of social and political failure, a new generation has revitalised architecture and urban design in order to address persistent poverty and inequality. Together, these activists, pragmatists and social idealists are performing bold experiments that the rest of the world may learn from. Radical Cities is a colorful journey through Latin America—a crucible of architectural and urban innovation.

Author : Francisco Bullrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015006720075

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New Directions in Latin American Architecture by Francisco Bullrich Pdf

Modern architecture in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking nations of Latin America.

Author : Patricio del Real
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300254563

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Constructing Latin America by Patricio del Real Pdf

A nuanced look at how the Museum of Modern Art's carefully curated treatment of Latin American architecture promoted U.S. political, economic, and cultural interests In the interwar period and immediately following World War II, the U.S. government promoted the vision of a modern, progressive, and democratic Latin America and worked to cast the region as a partner in the fight against fascism and communism. This effort was bolstered by the work and products of many institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Using modern architecture to imagine a Latin America under postwar U.S. leadership, MoMA presented blockbuster shows, including Brazil Builds (1943) and Latin American Architecture since 1945 (1955), that deployed racially coded aesthetics and emphasized the confluence of "Americanness" and "modernity" in a globalizing world. Delving into the heated debates of the period and presenting never-before-published internal documents and photos from the museum and the Nelson A. Rockefeller archives, Patricio del Real is the first to fully address MoMA's role in U.S. cultural imperialism and its consequences through its exhibitions on Latin American art and architecture.

Author : Idurre Alonso,Maristella Casciato
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781606066942

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The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930 by Idurre Alonso,Maristella Casciato Pdf

This volume examines the unprecedented growth of several cities in Latin America from 1830 to 1930, observing how sociopolitical changes and upheavals created the conditions for the birth of the metropolis. In the century between 1830 and 1930, following independence from Spain and Portugal, major cities in Latin America experienced large-scale growth, with the development of a new urban bourgeois elite interested in projects of modernization and rapid industrialization. At the same time, the lower classes were eradicated from old city districts and deported to the outskirts. The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930 surveys this expansion, focusing on six capital cities—Havana, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, and Lima—as it examines sociopolitical histories, town planning, art and architecture, photography, and film in relation to the metropolis. Drawing from the Getty Research Institute’s vast collection of books, prints, and photographs from this period, largely unpublished until now, this volume reveals the cities’ changes through urban panoramas, plans depicting new neighborhoods, and photographs of novel transportation systems, public amenities, civic spaces, and more. It illustrates the transformation of colonial cities into the monumental modern metropolises that, by the end of the 1920s, provided fertile ground for the emergence of today’s Latin American megalopolis.

Author : Barry Bergdoll,Carlos Eduardo Comas,Jorge Francisco Liernur,Patricio Del Real
Publisher : Museum of Modern Art, New York
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0870709631

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Latin America in Construction by Barry Bergdoll,Carlos Eduardo Comas,Jorge Francisco Liernur,Patricio Del Real Pdf

In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. Published in conjunction with a new exhibition that revisits the region on the 60th anniversary of that important show, Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 offers a complex overview of the positions, debates, and architectural creativity from Mexico and Cuba to the Southern Cone between 1955 and the early 1980s. The publication features a wealth of original materials that have never before been brought together to illustrate a period of self-questioning, exploration and complex political shifts that saw the emergence of the notion of Latin America as a landscape of development. Richly illustrated with architectural drawings, vintage photographs, sketches and newly commissioned photographs, the catalogue presents the work of architects who met the challenges of modernization with innovative formal, urbanistic and programmatic solutions. Today, when Latin America is again providing exciting and challenging architecture and urban responses, Latin America in Construction brings this vital post-war period to light.

Author : Carlos Brillembourg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173015499220

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Latin American Architecture, 1929-1960 by Carlos Brillembourg Pdf

This volume documents the golden period of Latin American architecture that was inaugurated in September 1929, when Le Corbusier was invited to lecture in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. These countries were eager to apply -- and transform -- a European-born modernism, and within a few decades, they captured international attention with an array of extraordinary buildings, exemplified by the Ministry of Education and Health in Rio de Janeiro and the Brazilian pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. The contributors to this insightful collection of essays (which grew out of a 2002 conference organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the New School University) offer contemporary reflections that underline the importance of reexamining this almost forgotten work in light of the contemporary crisis in global architectural production. Each essay examines a particular aspect of the cultural transformation that took place in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, and Mexico. Among the topics explored are the influence of Le Corbusier on the region, the early work of Oscar Niemeyer, the roots of Mexican modernism and its radical transformation in the work of Luis Barragaacute;n, and the creative collaboration between Venezuelan architect Carlos Raul Villanueva and sculptor Alexander Calder.

Author : Felipe Hernández
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3764387696

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Beyond Modernist Masters by Felipe Hernández Pdf

Latin America has been an important place for architecture for many decades. Recently, architecture on the continent has continued to evolve, and an extremely creative scene has developed. Within this context, the book considers outstanding projects that have prompted discussion and provided fresh impetus all across Latin America.