From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape Across the Mexico-United States Border - Couverture souple

Herzog, Lawrence A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 080186643X ISBN 13 : 9780801866432

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

Synopsis

The United States and Mexico share a 2000-mile boundary where landscape and architecture clash in a vivid contrast of two cultures. This is an exploration of the architectural future of interdependent neighbours who share a history, an economy, and a landscape. After reviewing three key periods in Mexico's 3000-year-old architectural past - indigenous, Spanish colonial, and modern - urban planning scholar Lawrence A. Herzog focuses on the border territories of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, particularly in California. Through 80 black-and-white photographs and interviews with architects from both sides of the border, the book provides a picture of how traditional Mexican architecture has intersected with the post-industrial, high-tech urban style of the United States - a mix that offers an alternative to the homogenization of architecture north of the international border.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lawrence A. Herzog is a professor of city planning in the School of Public Administration and Urban Studies at San Diego State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080186643X
• ISBN 13: 9780801866432
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
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