Transculturation Cities Space and Architecture in Latin America 1st Edition by Felipe Hernandez, Mark Millington ISBN 9042016280 9789042016286

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ISBN 10: 9042016280 

ISBN 13: 9789042016286

Author: Felipe Hernández, Mark Millington

Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America explores the critical potential inherent in the notion of “transculturation” in order to understand contemporary architectural practices and their cultural realities in Latin America. Despite its enormous theoretical potential and its importance within Latin American cultural theory, the term transculturation had never permeated into architectural debates. In fact, none of the main architectural theories produced in and about Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century engaged seriously with this notion as a way to analyze the complex social, cultural and political circumstances that affect the development of the continent’s cities, its urban spaces and its architectures. Therefore, this book demonstrates, for the first time, that the term transculturation is an invaluable tool in dismantling the essentialist, genealogical and hierarchical perspectives from which Latin American architectural practices have been viewed. Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America introduces new readings and interpretations of the work of well-known architects, new analyses regarding the use of architectural materials and languages, new questions to do with minority architectures, gender and travel, and, from beginning to end, it engages with important political and theoretical debates that have rarely been broached within Latin American architectural circles.

Table of contents:

1. Preliminary Material

2. Reconfiguring the Caribbean’s Sense of Place: From Fixed Identity to Fluid Hybridity

3. The Construction of Home in the Informal City

4. From Austin, Texas to Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala and Back Again

5. Changing Perceptions of National Identity in Brazilian Art and Modern Architecture

6. Chopin to the Electric Chair!: The Mexican Avant-Garde and the Revolutionised City

7. Landscapes of Confusion: The Urban Imaginaries of Néstor García Canclini and Kevin Lynch

8. Colonising the Land: Heimat and the Constructed Landscapes of Mexico’s Ciudad Universitaria (1943–1953)

9. Translation Theory and Translational Architectures: Reading between History, Architecture and Cultural Theory

10. Cement and Multiculturalism

11. Syncretism, Wonder and Memory in the Work of Rogelio Salmona

12. Niemeyer’s Casino and the Misdeeds of Brazilian Architecture

13. Trope of the Tropics: The Baroque in Modern Brazilian Architecture, 1940-1950

14. Transculturation: Taking Stock

15. Notes on Contributors

16. Index

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