From Library Journal
Fifth in the "Studies in Architecture and Culture" series, this title contains cogent and informative essays by different authors on the following practitioners, each representing a different country: Eladio Dieste, Christian De Groote, Ricardo Legorreta, Rogelio Salmona, Jes#s Tenreiro-Degwitz, and Clorindo Testa. Producing buildings with recognizable International Style, if not specifically Corbusian, elements, these architects fully embraced the modern movement, blending it in some cases with regional materials. In the introduction, the late Marina Waisman provides insightful social, cultural, and historical background. Following each essay, there is a selection of six buildings, each examined succinctly and accompanied by clear and ample black-and-white photographs and line drawings. Although slightly stilted at times, the language of the essays nevertheless examines and describes the work with precision. The volume concludes with capsule biographies of the architects. Suitable for all architecture collections, this book fills a wide gap in sources on modern architecture in Central and South America, which, as the authors point out, remains chronically marginalized.
-Paul Glassman, New York Sch. of Interior Design Lib.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
-Paul Glassman, New York Sch. of Interior Design Lib.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Malcolm Quantrill is Distinguished Professor of Architecture at Texas A&M University.Kenneth Frampton is Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University in New York City.Pablo J. Rodriguez P. is founder of the architectural firm TEKTON Arquitectura in Caracas, where he practices and teaches architecture.Michael L. Tribe is an associate with Peter Gisolfi Associates of Westchester, New York, where he designs residential, institutional, and commercial projects.
