Latin American Architecture: Six Voices FROM THE PUBLISHER
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.
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
Fifth in the "Studies in Architecture and Culture" series, this title contains cogent and informative essays by different authors on the following practitioners, each representing a different country: Eladio Dieste, Christian De Groote, Ricardo Legorreta, Rogelio Salmona, Jes s Tenreiro-Degwitz, and Clorindo Testa. Producing buildings with recognizable International Style, if not specifically Corbusian, elements, these architects fully embraced the modern movement, blending it in some cases with regional materials. In the introduction, the late Marina Waisman provides insightful social, cultural, and historical background. Following each essay, there is a selection of six buildings, each examined succinctly and accompanied by clear and ample black-and-white photographs and line drawings. Although slightly stilted at times, the language of the essays nevertheless examines and describes the work with precision. The volume concludes with capsule biographies of the architects. Suitable for all architecture collections, this book fills a wide gap in sources on modern architecture in Central and South America, which, as the authors point out, remains chronically marginalized.--Paul Glassman, New York Sch. of Interior Design Lib. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\
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