Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art Technology and Utopia (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

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Designed as a survey and focused on key examples and movements arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003 this is the first comprehensive history of modern architecture in Latin America in any language. Runner-up University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Award 2015 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 waysas 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.