{"product_id":"latin-american-modern-architectures-ambiguous-territories-9780415893466","title":"Latin American Modern Architectures Ambiguous Territories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLatin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories\u003c\/em\u003e has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the regionâs 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 FÃlix 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 GÃmez Gavazzo and Peruvian architect and politician Fernando BelaÃnde 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors include Noemà Adagio, Ped\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003eThese thirteen essays and their accompanying illustrations contain an abundance of compelling details and interpretive insights, and cumulatively they signal a sophisticated architectural historiography that has the capacity to contribute to the broader political and social histories of Latin America.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e– \u003cem\u003eTimothy Hyde, Harvard University, USA\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The book, Latin American Modern Architecture: Ambiguous Territories, edited by Patricio del Real and Helen Gyger is a thorough yet consciously fragmented compilation of writings that investigate Latin American cities and its architecture for what they are but also for what they were meant to be, in order to begin a much needed critical revision about the region.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e – Marcelo López-Dinardi, Planning Perspectives, New York, USA\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword \u003cem\u003eKenneth Frampton. \u003c\/em\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eIntroduction\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Singular Journeys \u003c\/strong\u003e 1. Lucio Costa’s Luso-Brazilian Routes: Recalibrating \"Center\" and \"Periphery\" \u003cem\u003eGaia Piccarolo \u003c\/em\u003e2. \"Corbusians\" in Uruguay: A Contradictory Report \u003cem\u003eJorge Nudelman Blejwas \u003c\/em\u003e3. Mass Culture at Mid-Century: Architecture under a \"New Humanism\" \u003cem\u003eNoemí Adagio \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Techno-Cultural Assemblages\u003c\/strong\u003e 4. Pre-Columbian Skins, Developmentalist Souls: The Architect as Politician \u003cem\u003eLuis Castañeda \u003c\/em\u003e5. Caracas’s Cultural (Be)longings: Re-tracing the Troubled Trajectories of the Superbloque Experiment \u003cem\u003eViviana d’Auria \u003c\/em\u003e6. Monumentality and Resignification: The UNCTAD III Building in Chile \u003cem\u003eDaniel Talesnik\u003c\/em\u003e 7. A Panel’s Tale: The Soviet I-464 System and the Politics of Assemblage \u003cem\u003ePedro Ignacio Alonso\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHugo Palmarola Sagredo \u003c\/em\u003e8. Argentina’s cuestión capital: Founding a Modern Nation, 1850–1888 \u003cem\u003eClaudia Shmidt\u003c\/em\u003e 9\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e Modern Frontiers: Beyond Brasilia, the Amazon \u003cem\u003ePaulo Tavares \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Mediated Territories\u003c\/strong\u003e 10. Reflections of the \"Colonial\": Between Mexico and Californiano \u003cem\u003eCristina López Uribe \u003c\/em\u003e11. Aviation, Electrification, and the Nation: Visions from Colombia and Chile \u003cem\u003eHugo Mondragón López \u003c\/em\u003e12. Mario Pani’s Hospitality: Latin America in Arquitectura\/México \u003cem\u003eGeorge F. Flaherty \u003c\/em\u003e13. Technics and Civilization: Félix Candela's Geopolitical Imaginary \u003cem\u003eMaria González Pendás. \u003c\/em\u003eContributors. Image Credits. Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767528194391,"sku":"9780415893466","price":51.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415893466.jpg?v=1758713641","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/latin-american-modern-architectures-ambiguous-territories-9780415893466","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}