The architecture of Latin America / edited by Miguel Angel Roca.

Title & Author:

The architecture of Latin America / edited by Miguel Angel Roca.

Publication:

London : Academy Editions ; Lanham, Md. : Distributed in the USA by National Book Network, 1995.

Description:

141 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 11).
Latin America, modernity and contemporaneity : notes from the south / Miguel Angel Roca -- Situated modernity : Argentinian architecture 1970-90 / Roberto Fernández -- Brazilian architecture 1970-94 / Carlos Eduardo Días Comas -- De Groote, Murtinho and Browne : three Chilean views on the contemporary architectural debate / Fernando Pérez Oyarzun -- New proposals in Colombian architecture / Alberto Saldarriaga Roa -- An approach to contemporary Mexican architecture / Louise Noelle -- An introduction to Peruvian architecture / Gloria Camino de Broadbent.

Summary:

This text covers the recent architecture of Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Peru, and presents the work of 20 Latin American architects. The influence on this work of Spanish and early Indian religious traditions, and the volatile political climate, is considered.

ISBN:

1854903861 (paperback)
9781854903860 (paperback)
1954903861
9781954903869
1954903863

Subject:

Lateinamerika
Architecture Latin America History.
Architecture Amérique latine 20e siècle.
Architecture Amérique latine 20e siècle Dessins et plans.
Architecture Amérique latine Histoire.
Architecture
Architektur
Architekt
Bouwkunst.
Architecture Latin America History 20th century.
Architects Latin America 20th century.
Architecture Argentina History 20th century.
Architecture Brazil History 20th century.
Architecture Chile 20th century.
Architecture Colombia History 20th century.
Architecture Mexico History 20th century.
Architecture Peru History 20th century.
Latin America
Central America.
South America.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Roca, Miguel Angel.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 119172
Call No.: ID NA702.5.A7; ID:95-B1784
Status: Available

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