Latin American Architecture : Six Voices Hardcover - 2000
by Malcolm Quantrill; Kenneth Frampton
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- Title Latin American Architecture : Six Voices
- Author Malcolm Quantrill; Kenneth Frampton
- Binding Hardcover
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Texas A&M University Press
- Date 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0890969019I3N00
- ISBN 9780890969014 / 0890969019
- Weight 1.66 lbs (0.75 kg)
- Dimensions 9.82 x 7.28 x 0.78 in (24.94 x 18.49 x 1.98 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Library of Congress subjects Architecture - Latin America - 20th century, Architecture - Latin America - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99030561
- Dewey Decimal Code 720.98
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From the jacket flap
Latin American Architecture profiles architects from six of the major countries -- Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela -- six voices "speaking" for the region. The essays capture the political and social changes that have altered the face of Latin American countries and show how these architects continually attempt to balance the old with the new, intimating at the same time the continuity and cultivation of a tradition so persistent in Latin American architecture. In doing so, the artists reveal the two major schools of development: minimalist and tectonic tradition.
This handsomely illustrated book focuses on prominent figures in Latin American architecture. A critic from each country profiles the work of a representative architect of that nation: Colombia's Rogelio Salmona, Mexico's Ricardo Legorreta, Venezuela's Jesus Tenreiro-Degwitz, Uruguay's Eladio Dieste, Chile's Christian De Groote, and Argentina's Clorindo Testa.
Taken together, the studies in this volume correct an imbalanced treatment of the region's architecture at the hands of recent international critics, who lauded Latin America as the proving ground of modernism in the late 1940s but then quickly lost interest.
A refreshing look at some less-famous architects, whose skill is equal to if not greater than that of some stars of the "developed world", Latin AmericanArchitecture provides an ideal introduction for the architecture student or anyone else interested in architecture as a reflection of culture.
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Citations
- Foreword, 06/01/2000, Page 67
- Library Journal, 04/15/2000, Page 78