Latin American Modern Architectures

<p><em>Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories</em> 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.</p><p>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.</p> <p>Foreword <em>Kenneth Frampton. </em>Acknowledgments.<em> </em>Introduction<em> </em><strong>Part 1: Singular Journeys </strong> 1. Lucio Costa’s Luso-Brazilian Routes: Recalibrating "Center" and "Periphery" <em>Gaia Piccarolo </em>2. "Corbusians" in Uruguay: A Contradictory Report <em>Jorge Nudelman Blejwas </em>3. Mass Culture at Mid-Century: Architecture under a "New Humanism" <em>Noemí Adagio </em><strong>Part 2: Techno-Cultural Assemblages</strong> 4. Pre-Columbian Skins, Developmentalist Souls: The Architect as Politician <em>Luis Castañeda </em>5. Caracas’s Cultural (Be)longings: Re-tracing the Troubled Trajectories of the Superbloque Experiment <em>Viviana d’Auria </em>6. Monumentality and Resignification: The UNCTAD III Building in Chile <em>Daniel Talesnik</em> 7. A Panel’s Tale: The Soviet I-464 System and the Politics of Assemblage <em>Pedro Ignacio Alonso</em> and <em>Hugo Palmarola Sagredo </em>8. Argentina’s cuestión capital: Founding a Modern Nation, 1850–1888 <em>Claudia Shmidt</em> 9<em>.</em> Modern Frontiers: Beyond Brasilia, the Amazon <em>Paulo Tavares </em><strong>Part 3: Mediated Territories</strong> 10. Reflections of the "Colonial": Between Mexico and Californiano <em>Cristina López Uribe </em>11. Aviation, Electrification, and the Nation: Visions from Colombia and Chile <em>Hugo Mondragón López </em>12. Mario Pani’s Hospitality: Latin America in Arquitectura/México <em>George F. Flaherty </em>13. Technics and Civilization: Félix Candela's Geopolitical Imaginary <em>Maria González Pendás. </em>Contributors. Image Credits. Index</p>