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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “luis e carranza”
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  • Radical Functionalism

    A Social Architecture for Mexico

    by 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, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Modern Architecture in Latin America

    Art, Technology, and Utopia

    by 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 ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Cañar

    A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • American Architects and the Mechanics of Fame

    by 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 ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Doing Business with the Dictators

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Greece

    Modern Architectures in History

    by 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 ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Cumbia!

    Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

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  • Architecture and Capitalism

    1845 to the Present

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Governing by Design

    Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century

    by Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

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  • The Ideal of Total Environmental Control

    Knud Lönberg-Holm, Buckminster Fuller, and the SSA

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Latin American Modern Architectures

    Ambiguous Territories

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $77.99 USD