The Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil [electronic resource] /
Lara, Fernando Luiz.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2008.
Fernando Luiz Lara investigates how and why modern architecture became so popular in his native Brazil. He tracks the path of modernism's dissemination as well as the economic, cultural and political conditions that made it possible.
Fernando Luiz Lara investigates how and why modern architecture became so popular in his native Brazil. He tracks the path of modernism's dissemination as well as the economic, cultural and political conditions that made it possible.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-146) and index.
List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The time and place of architecture's popular modernism -- Documenting popular modernism -- Reasons for popular modernism in Brazil -- Problematizing popular modernism -- Lessons from popular modernism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Description based on print version record.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture
Architecture, Domestic