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Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980
Barry Bergdoll
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Description for Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980
Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Lowry, Glenn D.; Bergdoll, Barry; Comas, Carlos Eduardo; Liernur, Jorge Francisco. Num Pages: 320 pages, 560 illustrations, 238 in colour. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 314 x 34. Weight in Grams: 2284.
In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. Published in conjunction with a new exhibition that revisits the region on the 60th anniversary of that important show, Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 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. The publication features a wealth of original materials that have never before been brought together to illustrate a period of self-questioning, exploration and complex political shifts that saw ... Read more
In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. Published in conjunction with a new exhibition that revisits the region on the 60th anniversary of that important show, Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 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. The publication features a wealth of original materials that have never before been brought together to illustrate a period of self-questioning, exploration and complex political shifts that saw ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
2279g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780870709630
SKU
V9780870709630
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About Barry Bergdoll
Barry Bergdoll is the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and served as the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA from 2007 to 2013. He has been praised for activist's sense of urgency and an academic's insistence on rigor. He is the author ... Read more
Reviews for Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980
It serves, then, not only as a much-delayed sequel to the 1955 show, but as an autopsy for a dead epoch.
Tony Wood Bookforum Generously and comprehensively illustrated with historical and contemporary images of the most important work produced in Latin America... an important resource. Essential.
L.E. Carranza Choice In the book just as in the ... Read more
Tony Wood Bookforum Generously and comprehensively illustrated with historical and contemporary images of the most important work produced in Latin America... an important resource. Essential.
L.E. Carranza Choice In the book just as in the ... Read more