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Cruelty & utopia : cities and landscapes of Latin America / [edited by Jean-François Lejeune].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2005]Edition: English editionDescription: 263 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1568984898
  • 9781568984896
Other title:
  • Cruelty and utopia
Uniform titles:
  • Cruauté & utopie. English.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.98091732 22
LOC classification:
  • NA702 .C7813 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword / Hervé Hasquin -- From the city of the Caesars to the demystified city / Christophe Pourtois -- Reflections on Spain and the new world / Carlos Fuentes -- The laws of the Indies / Ordinances for the discovery, the population, and the racification of the Indies (excerpts), Philip II, King of Spain, 1573 -- Dreams of order: utopia, cruelty, and modernity / Jean-François Lejeune -- Quito: city and landscape between utopia and reality / Eduardo Baéz -- City and landscape in the construction of Brazil / Carlos Martins -- The virgin of the Andes / Carol Damian -- Writing and cities / Eduardo Subirats -- Le Corbusier: Latin American traces / Fernando Pérez Oyarzún -- Spaces of hybridization: the house of the architect / Felipe Hernandez -- Marvel, monster, myth: the modern city in Latin American literature / Rebecca E. Biron -- The pearl of the Antilles: Havana's tropical shadows and utopias / Roberto Segre -- A metropolis in the Pampas: Buenos Aires 1890-1940 / Adrián Gorelik -- When Brazil was modern: from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia / Lauro Cavalcanti -- Report from Brazil / Carlos E. Comás -- Roberto Burle Marx: the city as landscape / Jacques Leenhardt -- Lina Bo Bardi: toward an architecture without borders / Olívia de Oliveira -- Modernity and nationalism: Juan O'Gorman and post-revolutionary architecture in Mexico, 1920-1960 / Edward R. Burian -- Settings for history and oblivion in modern Mexico, 1942-1958: the city as imagined by Juan O'Gorman, Luis Barragán, Mathias Goeritz, and Mario Pani / Keith L. Eggener -- Toward the visibility of the invisible: notes on Caracas, modernity, and the University City of Caracas by Carlos Raúl Villanueva / Enrique Larrañaga -- Ensalada Tijuana? Welcome to the gritty landscape of globalization / Roberto A. González --
Foreword / Herve Hasquin -- From the city of the Caesars to the demystified city / Christophe Pourtois -- Reflections on Spain and the New World / Carlos Fuentes -- The laws of the Indies : ordinances for the discovery, the population, and the pacification of the Indies [excerpts] / Philip II, King of Spain 1573 -- Dreams of order : utopia, cruelty, and modernity / Jean-Francois Lejeune -- Quito : city and landscape between utopia and reality / Eduardo Baez -- City and landscape in the construction of Brazil / Carlos Martins -- The virgin of the Andes / Carol Damian -- Writing and cities / Eduardo Subirats -- Le Corbusier : Latin American traces / Fernando Perez Oyarzun -- Spaces of hybridization : the house of the architect : Luis Barragan, Lina Bo Bardi, Juan O'Gorman, Oscar Niemeyer, and Carlos Raul Villanueva / Felipe Hernandez -- Marvel, monster, myth : the modern city in Latin American literature / Rebecca E. Biron -- The pearl of the Antilles : Havana's tropical shadows and utopias / Roberto Segre -- A metropolis in the Pampas : Buenos Aires 1890-1940 / Adrian Gorelik -- When Brazil was modern : from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia / Lauro Cavalcanti -- Report from Brazil / Carlos E. Comas -- Roberto Burle Marx : the city as landscape / Jacques Leenhardt -- Lina Bo Bardi : toward an architecture without borders / Olivia de Oliveira -- Modernity and nationalism : Juan O'Gorman and post-revolutionary architecture in Mexico, 1920-1960 / Edward R. Burian -- Settings for history and oblivion in modern Mexico, 1942-1958 : the city as imagined by Juan O'Gorman, Luis Barragan, Mathias Goeritz, and Mario Pani / Keith L. Eggener -- Toward the visibility of the invisible : notes on Caracas, modernity, and the university city of Caracas by Carlos Raul Villanueva / Enrique Larranaga -- Ensalada Tijuana? : welcome to the gritty landscape of globalization / Roberto A. Gonzalez.
Review: "This landmark collection of illustrated essays explores the vastly underappreciated history of America's other cities - the great metropolises found south of our borders in Central and South America."--Jacket.Review: "This landmark collection of illustrated essays explores the vastly underappreciated history of America's other cities - the great metropolises found south of our borders in Central and South America."--BOOK JACKET.
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Originally published in connection with an exhibition at the CIVA in Brussels, May 22-Oct. 5, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Hervé Hasquin -- From the city of the Caesars to the demystified city / Christophe Pourtois -- Reflections on Spain and the new world / Carlos Fuentes -- The laws of the Indies / Ordinances for the discovery, the population, and the racification of the Indies (excerpts), Philip II, King of Spain, 1573 -- Dreams of order: utopia, cruelty, and modernity / Jean-François Lejeune -- Quito: city and landscape between utopia and reality / Eduardo Baéz -- City and landscape in the construction of Brazil / Carlos Martins -- The virgin of the Andes / Carol Damian -- Writing and cities / Eduardo Subirats -- Le Corbusier: Latin American traces / Fernando Pérez Oyarzún -- Spaces of hybridization: the house of the architect / Felipe Hernandez -- Marvel, monster, myth: the modern city in Latin American literature / Rebecca E. Biron -- The pearl of the Antilles: Havana's tropical shadows and utopias / Roberto Segre -- A metropolis in the Pampas: Buenos Aires 1890-1940 / Adrián Gorelik -- When Brazil was modern: from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia / Lauro Cavalcanti -- Report from Brazil / Carlos E. Comás -- Roberto Burle Marx: the city as landscape / Jacques Leenhardt -- Lina Bo Bardi: toward an architecture without borders / Olívia de Oliveira -- Modernity and nationalism: Juan O'Gorman and post-revolutionary architecture in Mexico, 1920-1960 / Edward R. Burian -- Settings for history and oblivion in modern Mexico, 1942-1958: the city as imagined by Juan O'Gorman, Luis Barragán, Mathias Goeritz, and Mario Pani / Keith L. Eggener -- Toward the visibility of the invisible: notes on Caracas, modernity, and the University City of Caracas by Carlos Raúl Villanueva / Enrique Larrañaga -- Ensalada Tijuana? Welcome to the gritty landscape of globalization / Roberto A. González --

Foreword / Herve Hasquin -- From the city of the Caesars to the demystified city / Christophe Pourtois -- Reflections on Spain and the New World / Carlos Fuentes -- The laws of the Indies : ordinances for the discovery, the population, and the pacification of the Indies [excerpts] / Philip II, King of Spain 1573 -- Dreams of order : utopia, cruelty, and modernity / Jean-Francois Lejeune -- Quito : city and landscape between utopia and reality / Eduardo Baez -- City and landscape in the construction of Brazil / Carlos Martins -- The virgin of the Andes / Carol Damian -- Writing and cities / Eduardo Subirats -- Le Corbusier : Latin American traces / Fernando Perez Oyarzun -- Spaces of hybridization : the house of the architect : Luis Barragan, Lina Bo Bardi, Juan O'Gorman, Oscar Niemeyer, and Carlos Raul Villanueva / Felipe Hernandez -- Marvel, monster, myth : the modern city in Latin American literature / Rebecca E. Biron -- The pearl of the Antilles : Havana's tropical shadows and utopias / Roberto Segre -- A metropolis in the Pampas : Buenos Aires 1890-1940 / Adrian Gorelik -- When Brazil was modern : from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia / Lauro Cavalcanti -- Report from Brazil / Carlos E. Comas -- Roberto Burle Marx : the city as landscape / Jacques Leenhardt -- Lina Bo Bardi : toward an architecture without borders / Olivia de Oliveira -- Modernity and nationalism : Juan O'Gorman and post-revolutionary architecture in Mexico, 1920-1960 / Edward R. Burian -- Settings for history and oblivion in modern Mexico, 1942-1958 : the city as imagined by Juan O'Gorman, Luis Barragan, Mathias Goeritz, and Mario Pani / Keith L. Eggener -- Toward the visibility of the invisible : notes on Caracas, modernity, and the university city of Caracas by Carlos Raul Villanueva / Enrique Larranaga -- Ensalada Tijuana? : welcome to the gritty landscape of globalization / Roberto A. Gonzalez.

"This landmark collection of illustrated essays explores the vastly underappreciated history of America's other cities - the great metropolises found south of our borders in Central and South America."--Jacket.

"This landmark collection of illustrated essays explores the vastly underappreciated history of America's other cities - the great metropolises found south of our borders in Central and South America."--BOOK JACKET.

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