Title & Author:

Latin America in construction : architecture 1955-1980 / Barry Bergdoll, Carlos Eduardo Comas, Jorge Francisco Liernur, Patricio del Real.

Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art, [2015]
New York, New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK/D.A.P
©2015

Description:

320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, plans ; 32 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 29-July 19, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313).
Portfolio / Leonardo Finotti -- Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Learning from Latin America : public space, housing, and landscape / Barry Bergdoll -- The poetics of development : notes on two Brazilian schools / Carlos Eduardo Comas -- Architectures for progress : Latin America, 1955-1980 / Jorge Francisco Liernur -- Plates. Argentina / Silvio Plotquin ; Brazil / Ruth Verde Zein ; Carribean / Barry Bergdoll ; Chile / Fernando Pérez Oyarzún ; Colombia / Carlos Niño Murcia ; Cuba / Eduardo Luis Rodriguez ; Mexico / Louise Noelle ; Peru / Sharif Kahatt and Jean Pierre Crousse ; Uruguay / Gustavo Scheps ; Venezuela / Silvia Hernández de Lasala -- Bibliography / Patricio del Real, Claudia Shmidt, Cláudia Costa Cabral, Alejandro G. Crispiani, Ricardo Daza, Hugo Mondragón, Belmont Freeman, Gustavo Luis Moré, Cristina López Uribe, Sharif Kahatt, Enrique Vivoni, Jorge Nudelman, and Guillermo Barrios.

Summary:

In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture, since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. This book offers a complex overview of the positions, debates, and architectural creativity from Mexico and Cuba to the Southern Cone between 1955 and the early 1980s.

ISBN:

9780870709630
0870709631

Subject:

Architecture Latin America History Exhibitions.
Nineteen fifties Exhibitions.
Nineteen sixties Exhibitions.
Nineteen seventies Exhibitions.
Architecture Amérique latine Histoire Expositions.
Années cinquante (Vingtième siècle) Expositions.
Années soixante (Vingtième siècle) Expositions.
Années soixante-dix (Vingtième siècle) Expositions.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture.
Nineteen fifties.
Nineteen seventies.
Nineteen sixties.
Arkitektur historia.
Latin America.

Form/genre:

Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Bergdoll, Barry, author, organizer.
Comas, Carlos Eduardo, author, organizer.
Liernur, Jorge Francisco, author, organizer.
Del Real, Patricio, 1966- author, organizer.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290084
Call No.: BIB 232825
Status: Available