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

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Object Details

organizer
Bergdoll, Barry
Comas, Carlos Eduardo
Liernur, Jorge Francisco
Del Real, Patricio 1966-
host institution
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Published in conjuction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 29-July 19, 2015.
Contents
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.
2015
Type
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
History
Physical description
320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, plans ; 32 cm
Place
Latin America
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Architecture--History
Nineteen fifties
Nineteen sixties
Nineteen seventies
Record ID
siris_sil_1080664
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0