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  • Radical Functionalism

    A Social Architecture for Mexico

    de Luis E. Carranza ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico provides a complex and nuanced understanding of the functionalist architecture developed in Mexico during the 1930s. It carefully re-reads the central texts and projects of its main advocates to show how their theories responded to the socially and culturally charged Mexican context. These, such as architects Juan Legarreta, Juan O’Gorman, ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Modern Architecture in Latin America

    Art, Technology, and Utopia

    de Luis E. Carranza, Fernando Luiz Lara ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    **Designed as a survey and focused on key examples and movements arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this is the first comprehensive history of modern architecture in Latin America in any language.Runner-up, University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Award, 2015**Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

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    de Nicholas Fox Weber ...
    From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death.He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society ... Leer más

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  • Cañar

    A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador

    de Judy Blankenship ...
    Once isolated from the modern world in the heights of the Andean mountains, the indigenous communities of Ecuador now send migrants to New York City as readily as they celebrate festivals whose roots reach back to the pre-Columbian past. Fascinated by this blending of old and new and eager to make a record of traditional customs and rituals before they disappear entirely, photographer-journalist ... Leer más

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  • American Architects and the Mechanics of Fame

    de Roxanne Kuter Williamson ...
    Why does one talented individual win lasting recognition in a particular field, while another equally talented person does not? While there are many possible reasons, one obvious answer is that something more than talent is requisite to produce fame. The "something more" in the field of architecture, asserts Roxanne Williamson, is the association with a "famous" architect at the moment he or she ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Doing Business with the Dictators

    A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944

    de Paul J. Dosal ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    The United Fruit Company (UFCO) developed an unprecedented relationship with Guatemala in the first half of this century. By 1944, UFCO owned 566,000 acres, employed 20,000 people, and operated 96% of Guatemala's 719 miles of railroad, making the multinational corporation Guatemala's largest private landowner and biggest employer. In Doing Business with the Dictators, Paul J. Dosal shows how UFCO ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Greece

    Modern Architectures in History

    de Alcestis P. Rodi, Prof Alexander Tzonis ...
    Series series Modern Architectures in History
    This book is an unprecedented account of modern architecture in Greece, providing a unique understanding of the development of architectural practice and theory in the context of the country’s political and social history. Alexander Tzonis and Alcestis Rodi present the ambitious Neoclassicist projects thought appropriate for a new nation that followed from the establishment of the Greek state in ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Cumbia!

    Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre

    Edición de Pablo Vila, Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste ...
    Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic flexibility. Cumbia absorbs and mixes with the local musical styles it encounters. Known for its appeal to workers, the music takes ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Architecture and Capitalism

    1845 to the Present

    Edición de Peggy Deamer ...
    Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays the time period they know best, looking at cultural and economic issues, which in light of current economic crises you will find have dealt with diverse but surprisingly familiar economic issues. Told through case studies, the narrative ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Governing by Design

    Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century

    de Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative ...
    Series Libro 13 - Culture Politics & the Built Environment
    Governing by Design offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history. It disputes the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looks to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our built environment evolves. In these chapters, historians offer their analysis on design as a vehicle ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Ideal of Total Environmental Control

    Knud Lönberg-Holm, Buckminster Fuller, and the SSA

    de Suzanne Strum ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    **Finalist for the Thought and Criticism category of the FAD Awards 2019**This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lönberg- Holm, a forgotten Danish architect who promoted a unique systemic, cybernetic, and ecological vision of architecture in the 1930s. A pioneering figure of the new objectivity and international ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Latin American Modern Architectures

    Ambiguous Territories

    Edición de Patricio del Real, Helen Gyger ...
    Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region’s rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that have not been written about in English. A foreword by historian Kenneth Frampton sets the stage for essays on well-known architects, such as Lucio ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD