Total Latin American Architecture

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 : 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 : 50,6 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 : Roberto Segre
Publisher : New York : Holmes & Meier
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCAL:B4328722

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Latin America in Its Architecture by Roberto Segre Pdf

Author : Justin McGuirk
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Luis E. Carranza,Fernando Luiz Lara
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Francisco Bullrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : 55,9 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 : Patricio del Real,Helen Gyger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Damián Bayón,Paolo Gasparini
Publisher : Chichester ; New York : Wiley
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023413886

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The Changing Shape of Latin American Architecture by Damián Bayón,Paolo Gasparini Pdf

Author : Eduardo Tejeira-Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015017005235

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Roots of Modern Latin American Architecture by Eduardo Tejeira-Davis Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401201247

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Transculturation by Anonim Pdf

Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America explores the critical potential inherent in the notion of “transculturation” in order to understand contemporary architectural practices and their cultural realities in Latin America.Despite its enormous theoretical potential and its importance within Latin American cultural theory, the term transculturation had never permeated into architectural debates. In fact, none of the main architectural theories produced in and about Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century engaged seriously with this notion as a way to analyze the complex social, cultural and political circumstances that affect the development of the continent’s cities, its urban spaces and its architectures. Therefore, this book demonstrates, for the first time, that the term transculturation is an invaluable tool in dismantling the essentialist, genealogical and hierarchical perspectives from which Latin American architectural practices have been viewed.Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America introduces new readings and interpretations of the work of well-known architects, new analyses regarding the use of architectural materials and languages, new questions to do with minority architectures, gender and travel, and, from beginning to end, it engages with important political and theoretical debates that have rarely been broached within Latin American architectural circles.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173020522411

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Other Americas by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carlos Brillembourg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Edward E. Crain
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781947372238

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Historic Architecture in the Caribbean Islands by Edward E. Crain Pdf

The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.

Author : Miquel Adrià,Andrea Griborio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 6079489104

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Radical by Miquel Adrià,Andrea Griborio Pdf

Fifty architectural projects built in Latin America between 2010 and 2015 by architects under 50 years of age. The publication brings together works from 13 different countries.