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Latin American Modern Architectures : Ambiguous Territories

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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.

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.