From Aztec to high tech
Subtitle: architecture and landscape across the Mexico-United States border
By: Lawrence A. Herzog.
Series: Creating the North American landscape
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Architecture and society -- Mexico, North.; Architecture -- Mexico, North -- Influence.; Architecture and society -- Southwest, New.; Mexican American architecture -- Southwest, New.; Mexico, North -- Relations -- Southwest, New.; Southwest, New -- Relations -- Mexico, North.
Description: From Aztec to High Tech explores the architectural future of interdependent neighbors who share a history, an economy, and a landscape. After reviewing three key periods in Mexico's three thousand-year-old architectural past - indigenous, Spanish colonial, and modern - urban planning scholar Lawrence A. Herzog focuses on the border territories of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, particularly in California.

Through eighty black-and-white photographs and interviews with architects from both sides of the border, this engaging book provides a compelling picture of how traditional Mexican architecture has intersected with the postindustrial, high-tech urban style of the United States - a mix that offers an alternative to the homogenization of architecture north of the international border.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-232) and index.