Title:
Latin American houses
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Milan : Phaidon Press : 2007
Physical Description:
237. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9781904313564
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Summary
Summary
Following up on her successful book 20 Houses by 20 Architects, critic and historian Mercedes Daguerre explores Latin America's modernist tradition through the one-family houses of the region's best and brightest contemporary architects. The book covers nineteen structures built in Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, and Argentina.
Author Notes
Mercedes Daguerre is a lecturer and researcher at several European and American univesities, and has a number of publications to her name on the history of contemporary architecture. She is currently an editor at the magazine Casabella .