Latin American Architecture
Subtitle: Six Voices (Studies in Architecture and Culture)
Contributors: Kenneth Frampton (Editor); Malcolm Quantrill (Editor)
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780890969014
Subjects: American studies; Architecture; Mexico; Latin America; 20th Century Architecture; Argentina; Chile; Colombia; Uruguay; Venezuela; Criticism; International Architecture - General; 20th century
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.