Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship
by Catherine Seavitt Nordenson
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.
U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere
by Robert Alexander González
Introduction by Robert Rydell
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477326671
Pub Date: September 13th, 2022
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Coinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America.
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.
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.
Choreographing Political Demonstrations in Public Space
by Tali Hatuka
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477315767
Pub Date: August 1st, 2018
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Presenting case studies from around the world, this book offers the first extensive discussion of the act of protest as a designed event that uses public space to challenge the distance between institutional power.
Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity
by Fabiola López-Durán
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.
Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space
by Rachel Berney
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
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
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
Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754-1828
by Paul Niell
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477311301
Pub Date: May 15th, 2015
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
This pathfinding interpretation of Havana’s foundational site brings the first extensive and direct application of contemporary heritage studies to the analysis of colonial Latin American visual culture.
