Transculturation : : cities, spaces and architectures in Latin America / / edited by Felipe Hernandez, Mark Millington and Iain Borden.
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 i...
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| Superior document: | Critical studies ; 27 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
v. 27. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Felipe Hernández , Mark Millington and Iain Borden
- Reconfiguring the Caribbean’s Sense of Place: From Fixed Identity to Fluid Hybridity / Monika Kaup and Robert Mugerauer
- The Construction of Home in the Informal City / Peter Kellett
- From Austin, Texas to Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala and Back Again / Jane Rendell
- Changing Perceptions of National Identity in Brazilian Art and Modern Architecture / Michael Asbury
- Chopin to the Electric Chair!: The Mexican Avant-Garde and the Revolutionised City / Luis Carranza
- Landscapes of Confusion: The Urban Imaginaries of Néstor García Canclini and Kevin Lynch / Anny Brooksbank-Jones
- Colonising the Land: Heimat and the Constructed Landscapes of Mexico’s Ciudad Universitaria (1943–1953) / Helen Thomas
- Translation Theory and Translational Architectures: Reading between History, Architecture and Cultural Theory / Felipe Hernández
- Cement and Multiculturalism / Adrian Forty
- Syncretism, Wonder and Memory in the Work of Rogelio Salmona / Ricardo L. Castro
- Niemeyer’s Casino and the Misdeeds of Brazilian Architecture / Carlos Eduardo Dias Comas
- Trope of the Tropics: The Baroque in Modern Brazilian Architecture, 1940-1950 / Sandra Isabella Vivanco
- Transculturation: Taking Stock / Mark Millington
- Notes on Contributors / Felipe Hernández , Mark Millington and Iain Borden
- Index / Felipe Hernández , Mark Millington and Iain Borden.