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Modernism’s Magic Hat
Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781477329665
Pub Date: July 16th, 2024
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization.
Resurrecting Tenochtitlan
Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781477326992
Pub Date: May 16th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
How Mexican artists and intellectuals created a new identity for modern Mexico City through its ties to Aztec Tenochtitlan.
Depositions
Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477327609
Pub Date: May 2nd, 2023
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
Presenting the first English translation of Burle Marx's “depositions," this volume highlights the environmental advocacy of a preeminent Brazilian landscape architect who advised and challenged the country's military dictatorship.
Modernity for the Masses
Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9781477321782
Pub Date: March 16th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
A provocative examination of how the discourse and practice of modern architecture was transformed by its encounter with large populations and the volatile politics of twentieth-century Argentina.
São Paulo
A Graphic Biography
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781477316276
Pub Date: October 29th, 2018
Format: Hardcover
348 Pages
This extensively illustrated, bilingual English-Portuguese volume traces the physical development of Brazil’s largest city and presents a blueprint for transforming its aging industrial areas into mixed-use affordable housing districts.
Eugenics in the Garden
Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477314968
Pub Date: March 1st, 2018
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
The first book to link eugenics with urban planning and the built environment, this volume traces how the “science” of race improvement spread from medicine to architecture as Latin Americans pursued a utopian project of modernization.
Learning from Bogotá
Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781477311042
Pub Date: January 17th, 2017
Format: Hardcover
190 Pages
Learning from Bogotá illuminates how a former “drug capital” has been transformed into a “pedagogical city,” where redesigned public spaces teach residents how to reconnect with one another and become more engaged citizens
Beyond the City
Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781477309414
Pub Date: June 7th, 2016
Format: Hardcover
178 Pages
Presenting five case studies from South America, this foundational book examines the roles played by architecture and urban design in large territorial transformation projects, which remake landscapes but leave a questionable legacy when resource-extracti
The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to the Present
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780292771901
Pub Date: August 15th, 2015
Format: Hardcover
350 Pages
Profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, maps, and analytical plan drawings of urban cores, this is the first comprehensive overview in either English or Spanish of the architecture, urban landscapes, and cities of Northern Mexico
Modern Architecture in Latin America
Art, Technology, and Utopia
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9780292762978
Pub Date: January 5th, 2015
Format: Paperback
424 Pages
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.
Modernism’s Magic Hat
Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781477329665
Pub Date: July 16th, 2024
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Resurrecting Tenochtitlan
Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781477326992
Pub Date: May 16th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Depositions
Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477327609
Pub Date: May 2nd, 2023
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
Presenting the first English translation of Burle Marx's “depositions," this volume highlights the environmental advocacy of a preeminent Brazilian landscape architect who advised and challenged the country's military dictatorship.
Modernity for the Masses
Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9781477321782
Pub Date: March 16th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
São Paulo
A Graphic Biography
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781477316276
Pub Date: October 29th, 2018
Format: Hardcover
348 Pages
Eugenics in the Garden
Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477314968
Pub Date: March 1st, 2018
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Learning from Bogotá
Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781477311042
Pub Date: January 17th, 2017
Format: Hardcover
190 Pages
Beyond the City
Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781477309414
Pub Date: June 7th, 2016
Format: Hardcover
178 Pages
The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to the Present
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780292771901
Pub Date: August 15th, 2015
Format: Hardcover
350 Pages
Modern Architecture in Latin America
Art, Technology, and Utopia
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9780292762978
Pub Date: January 5th, 2015
Format: Paperback
424 Pages