Routledge, 2002. — 297 p. — (Planning, History and Environment Series). In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe, and France in particular, shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to play a...
University of California Press, 1962. — 320 p. The Churches of Mexico, 1530-1810 is a comprehensive book written by Joseph Armstrong Baird Jr. that explores the history and architecture of churches in Mexico during the colonial period. The book covers the period from the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in 1530 to the end of the colonial era in 1810. It provides an in-depth...
Colegio de Arquitectos de Perú, 2010. — 174 p. Los arquitectos s610 definen una exigua parte del medio ambiente construido de nuestros pueblos y ciudades. El resto abrumador de obras vernáculas, que no pasan por las manos de estos profesionales, siguen -sin embarg~ pautas y estilos tradicionales bien definidos por el paisaje y la cultura de cada lugar. De la exuberancia de...
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2024. — 434 p. La excavación y consolidación de la arquitectura prehispánica de la cultura maya, conlleva una serie de actividades que no siempre son evidentes. Detrás de todo monumento restaurado se esconden procesos de trabajo que, además de múltiples esfuerzos físicos, han demandado la adecuada organización de personal,...
Ayuntamiento de Campeche, 2014. — 244 p. — (Colección Rafael Rodríguez Barrera). El asentamiento de las primeras comunidades mayas en las tierras que hoy llamamos Valle de Edzná creó un fuerte cambio en el paisaje natural. La actividad del hombre desde el año 600 antes de nuestra era modificó el hábitat no sólo abriendo espacios en la selva, sino también agregando volúmenes que...
G. Braziller, 1969. — 128 p. The impression made by the modern architecture of Latin America often begins and ends "unfairly" with Brazilia. An extraordinary demonstration of man's ability to carve a new city out of the jungle in the brief span of three years, Brazilia is nevertheless but a part of a far larger picture which makes up architecture in Latin America today. Indeed,...
University of Arizona Press, 2013. — 185 p. Bathed in desert light and shadow, rising up from the earth in improbable, faraway places, stand eight original Spanish missions on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. Built of stone by Roman Catholic priests and indigenous laborers in the eighteenth century, these stunning missions dominate the landscape around them. Baja California...
University of Texas Press, 2015. — 349 p. — (Roger Fullington Series in Architecture). The states of Northern Mexico—Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Baja California Norte and Sur—have architecture, urbanism, and landscape design that offer numerous lessons in how to build well, but this constructed environment is largely undervalued or...
Routledge, 2021. — 233 p. — (Routledge Research in Architectural History). Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico presents a fascinating survey of urban history between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It chronicles the creation and development of Puebla de los Ángeles, a city located in central-south Mexico, during its viceregal period. Founded in 1531, the city...
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), 2012. — 552 p. “Ciudad y Territorio en Los Andes” constituye una investigación de largo aliento que ofrece una visión de conjunto de las diferentes formas de asentamiento y manejo del territorio de las sociedades que habitaron los Andes centrales, desde los primeros cazadores recolectores hasta el imperio Inca, presentando de...
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), 2013. — 382 p. La arquitectura de Cajamarca, ciudad intermedia de los los Andes del norte del Perú y escenario del encuentro entre Atahualpa y Pizarro, ha sido analizada tradicionalmente a través de sus iglesias barrocas; no obstante, su arquitectura residencial constituye también un patrimonio rico e importante. Este libro...
Whitney Library of Design, 2000. — 224 p. A photographic guide to Cuba's history through a rich building tradition that spans four centuries. This volume focuses on the architectural treasures of the entire island, and should interest architects, students, historians and preservationists, as well as actual and armchair travellers.
University of Texas Press, 2014. — 424 p. — (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture). Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that represent the complex processes of political, economic, and cultural modernization in the twentieth century. The number...
University of Texas Press, 2010. — 256 p. — (Roger Fullington Series in Architecture). The period following the Mexican Revolution was characterized by unprecedented artistic experimentation. Seeking to express the revolution's heterogeneous social and political aims, which were in a continuous state of redefinition, architects, artists, writers, and intellectuals created...
Shokokusha, 1966. — 216 p. Comprehensive photographic chronicle of ancient Mayan and Mexican architecture. Examines twenty cities of architectural distinction, including several lesser known sites.
Frederick A. Praeger, 1961. — 224 p. A vision of modernity in a post-war period with a lot of influence from rationalism and the international style mainly from Europe, all of these portrayed in a very important book from one of Mexico's dearest architects (Max Cetto was born in Germany but worked in Mexico for a long time) The photographs and topics reflects the optimism and...
University of Texas Press, 2006. — 420 p. Ancient American palaces still captivate those who stand before them. Even in their fallen and ruined condition, the palaces project such power that, according to the editors of this new collection, it must have been deliberately drawn into their formal designs, spatial layouts, and choice of locations. Such messages separated palaces...
Routledge, 2013. — 321 p. Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region’s rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that have not been written about in English. A foreword by historian Kenneth Frampton sets the stage for...
A symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 7th and 8th October 1994. — Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1998. — 568 p. — (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection). Mayanists discuss various aspects of Classic Maya architecture such as antecedents, structures at sites, dynastic architecture, the built environment, iconography and other features that define function and meaning in Maya...
Centro de Investigaciones Históricas y Estéticas, 1977. — 363 p. Otro mérito del presente estudio es su contribución a una corriente que en años recientes ha tratado de comprender las civilizaciones andinas a través de minuciosas investigaciones de una actividad particular, en este caso, técnica de construcción y arquitectura, No se trata simplemente de mejores catálogos de las...
Indiana University Press , 1980. — 358 p. Inca Architecture is the first book devoted entirely to the remarkable buildings of Tawantinsuyu, the Inca state. Most treatments of Andean technology have either entirely ignored the architectural dimension or addressed it superficially. Since the authors of this volume are an archaeological historian and a cultural anthropologist,...
Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos, 2019. — 149 p. Ponencias y prispeciones de reconocidos investiadores del área maya norte que intercambiaron reflexiones acerca de los estilos arquitectónicos de las zonas Río Bec, Chenes y Puuc; así como cronología, estratigrafía o seriaciones arqueológicas.
Texas A&M University Press, 2008. — 132 p. — (Fronteras Series 7). Mexican settlers first came to the valley of the Rio Grande to establish their ranchos in the 1750s. Two centuries later the Great River, dammed in an international effort by the U.S. and Mexican governments to provide flood control and a more dependable water supply, inundated twelve settlements that had been...
The Museum of Modern Art, 1943. — 198 p. As Robert C. Smith, of the Library of Congress, has pointed out, a more strongly original native architecture might have been developed if the Brazilian colonists — like the New England col onists — had had to meet a wholly different set of building conditions from those which they had known at home. As it was, the thick masonry walls,...
BAR Publishing, 2009. — 282 p. — (BAR International Series 2002). This work investigates the evolution of urban design in the Andes of South America to ascertain if there existed in pre-Hispanic times a shared Andean tradition of urban planning. Since, in previous research, Andean urban planning has been treated as the product of individual sites or cultures, this study...
Harry N Abrams, 1976. — 340 p. A part of the series History of World Architecture originally published by Electa in Italian in 1971-7 under a general editorship of Pier Luigi Nervi, it was translated to English and published by Abrams in 1971-80 in b&w only, but at 10 x 11 1/4 inches. Subsequently, the series was reedited, shrunk to 8 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches, and published by Electa...
University of Texas Press, 1990. — 393 p. Before the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century A.D., the Inka Empire stretched along the Pacific side of South America, all the way from Ecuador to northwest Argentina. Though today many Inka researchers focus on the imperial capital of Cuzco, Peru, and surrounding areas, ruins of Inka settlements abound throughout the vast...
BAR Publishing, 1985. — 498 p. — (BAR International Series 242). Two themes of nves igation of Inca architecture, function and chronology, are devloped from a basis of systematically compiled field data in inventory form, obtained from Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. A method, to be used as a tool for the interpretation of the function of the architectural remains, is introduced and...
BAR Publishing, 2014. — 193 p. — (BAR International Series 2693). Prehispanic Maya architecture features a large variety of artistic expression, from reliefs and sculptures made of stone or stucco to mural paintings and graffiti found on the plastered surfaces of their walls and façades. All of this constitutes both an important artistic component which complements the...
Harper Design, 2003. — 176 р. Mexico is a country steeped in history with a rich cultural heritage, varied landscape, and vibrant fusion of styles evident in the architecture, interiors, and design to be found across the country. Photographer Mark Luscombe-Whyte and writer Dominic Bradbury have traveled Mexico from coast to coast seeking out exquisite examples of Mexican...
Connecticut: Chatham Press, Inc, 1973. — 100 p. — ISBN: 85699-085-x. Tells the story of the evolution of the defenses of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the role they played in helping to safeguard Spanish possessions in the Caribbean from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1956. — 256 p. Mindlin's work was key in collecting and propagating knowledge of Brazilian Modernism, both in Brazil and outside.
Grupo León Jimenes, 2008. — 459 p. La presente obra versa sobre lo que ha ocurrido en el país en lo que concierne a la arquitectura durante diferentes etapas de nuestro devenir histórico. El mismo es, más que una relación de nombres, fechas y obras, un texto de perfil académico, enriquecido con una presentación eminentemente gráfica, atendiendo a la naturaleza de su objeto de...
CIMA, 1994. — 488 p. Seguramente resulta una situación de complacencia, prologar la obra del Arq. Javier Escalante M. que por las características que ensamblan este primer trabajo, sus connotaciones generales abrigan un marco teórico donde existen contactos entre la arquitectura y la arqueología de la zona del Altiplano del Titicaca. Sobradamente la comunidad científica...
University of New Mexico Press, 1997. — 279 p. From monumental cathedrals to simple parish churches, perhaps as many as 100,000 churches and civic buildings were constructed in Mexico during the viceregal or colonial period (1535-1821). Many of these structures remain today as witnesses to the fruitful blending of Old and New World forms and styles that created an architecture...
University of Texas Press, 2015. — 304 p. By examining the stunning stone buildings and dynamic spaces of the royal estate of Chinchero, Nair brings to light the rich complexity of Inca architecture. This investigation ranges from the paradigms of Inca scholarship and a summary of Inca cultural practices to the key events of Topa Inca’s reign and the many individual elements of...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 325 p. Through Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architecture and Empire in Jamaica offers the first scholarly analysis of Jamaican architecture in the long 18th century, spanning roughly from the Port...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. — 423 p. — (Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment Series). Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories of Mexican colonial architecture, which suggested that Mexico possessed a distinctive...
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, 2010. — 227 p. El objetivo principal de este libro es evaluar la energía involucrada en los procesos de transformación que el asentamiento urbano de Teotihuacan ocasionó en el valle homónimo. En forma análoga a una ciudad moderna, donde el impacto de la actividad humana deja huellas en el...
Edusp, 2011. — 301 p. Partindo da evidente coincidência temporal e da identidade de personagens a transitar entre os três temas indicados no título deste livro – o movimento neocolonial, a emergência do modernismo e as primeiras preocupações com a preservação do patrimônio brasileiro –, Maria Lucia Bressan Pinheiro propicia uma abordagem inédita sobre a cultura brasileira na...
Dover Publications, 2002. — 107 p. With the imagination of an artist and the precision of a scientist, Tatiana Proskouriakoff has captured in pictures thirty-six restorations of magnificent Maya buildings as their builders saw the scenes more than a thousand years ago. Facing her painting of each structure is a documented text of archaeological findings and a line drawing of...
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2016. — 384 p. En Tiahuanaco uno descubre una de las arquitecturas de piedra más ingeniosas y hábiles del mundo. Su precisión compite con la de los incas hasta el punto que desde los cronistas españoles del siglo dieciséis hasta los escritores del siglo veinte han afirmado que Tiahuanaco no solo sirvió a los incas como modelo de...
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2013. — 253 p. — ( Monograph 75). The world's most artful and skillful stone architecture is found at Tiahuanaco at the southern end of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. The precision of the stone masonry rivals that of the Incas to the point that writers from Spanish chroniclers of the sixteenth century to twentieth-century authors have claimed...
Oxford University Press, 1993. — 301 p. It is a modern-day mystery how the Inca, who did not have iron tools or knowledge of the wheel, mined and transported stones and dressed and fitted them in remarkable structures. Jean-Pierre Protzen has spent much of the past decade investigating the quarrying and stonecutting techniques of the Inca, and problems of Inca construction...
New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1963. — 128 p. — (The Great Ages of World Architecture). Over 100 illustrations including photographs, plans and drawings.
Trillas, 2001. — 236 p. Para el autor, la arquitectura mesoamericana debe estudiarse e interpretarse mediante el examen de su concepción espacial. De ahí que esta obra presente un análisis formal de los espacios prehispánicos, tanto interiores como exteriores, y un método para clasificarlos.Esta investigación se realizó con base en la observación de las características físicas...
М.: Издательство литературы по строительству, 1965. — 134 с.
В книге рассказывается об архитектуре Кубы после народной революции 1959 года. Особое внимание уделено промышленному, сельскохозяйственному, жилищному и общественно-культурному строительству, ликвидации противоречий, доставшихся революционной Кубе от проамериканского режима Батисты. Книга богато иллюстрирована.
М.: Стройиздат, 1973. — 164 с. В книге последовательно освещается история архитектуры Бразилии и главным образом архитектуры последнего пятидесятилетия, выявляются основные тенденции ее развития, среди рассматриваемых творческих проблем особое место занимают вопросы формы и взаимоотношения национального и интернационального. Рассказывается об особенностях проектирования и...
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