No comments about The Traditional Architecture of Mexico.

No comments about The End of Architecture?: Documents and Manifestos : Vienna Architecture Conference (Architecture & Design).

1 comments about Building the New World: Modern Architecture in Latin America.

1. From the very beginning, Europe's modernist architects had a burning need to prostelitize about the benefits of their new architectural style. Their socialist message of modernity with its emphasis on form following function, simplicity and economy found an eager audience in Latin America during the first half of the Twentieth Century.
   
   "Building the New World" follows the rise of modernist architecture in Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil with a special emphasis on the ideas of Le Corbusier. These countries became world leaders in the advancement of the modernist agenda. At the time, Latin America's modernist architecture was admired throughout the world. Today, Latin America's contribution to modern architecture is almost unknown outside of the region. Valerie Fraser does a good job of raising the question of what happened to this acclaim. Unfortunately, she does not do a decent job of answering the question which she posits at the beginning of her book.
   
   In the end, "Building the New World" is nothing more than a cursory survey of Latin American modernist architecture. The illustrations are meager and the analysis is superficial. The only good thing that I recommend about this book is that it can purchased used for around five dollars. There is not alot written in English about this period of architectural history and anyone who is interested in the period will probably have to purchase this book. Purchase a used copy. In addition, avoid Carlos Brillembourg's "Latin American Architecture 1929-1960", an even less substantial work of architectural history.

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No comments about Um 1800: Architekturtheorie und Architekturkritik in Deutschland zwischen 1790 und 1810.

2 comments about The Art of the Accident.

1. After browsing this graphically stimulating book, I realize multi-media technology and non-tactile means of expression go way beyond what one experiences in real space. The Art of the Accident includes great conversations that are recorded over the internet and fax machines and serves to broaden the narrow scopes of professionals and academics in art, architecture etc.



2. After browsing this graphically stimulating book, I realize multi-media technology and non-tactile means of expression go way beyond what one experiences in real space. The Art of the Accident includes great conversations that are recorded over the internet and fax machines and serves to broaden the narrow scopes of professionals and academics in art, architecture etc.

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No comments about North East Norfolk and Norwich: Norfolk 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides).

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