Spatial Theories for the Americas: Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism - Couverture souple

Lara, Fernando Luiz

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822968533 ISBN 13 : 9780822968535

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2026

Synopsis

Longlist, 2025 Architecture Book Awards – Architectural Theory To study the built environment of the Americas is to wrestle with an inherent contradiction. While the disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter, the overwhelming majority of canonical knowledge and the vernacular used to describe these disciplines comes from another, very different, continent. With this book, Fernando Luiz Lara discusses several theories of space—drawing on cartography, geography, anthropology, and mostly architecture—and proposes counterweights to five centuries of Eurocentrism. The first part of Spatial Theories for the Americas offers a critique of Eurocentrism in the discipline of architecture, problematizing its theoretical foundation in relation to the inseparability of modernization and colonization. The second part makes explicit the insufficiencies of a hegemonic Western tradition at the core of spatial theories by discussing a long list of authors who have thought about the Americas. To overcome centuries of Eurocentrism, Lara concludes, will require a tremendous effort, but, nonetheless, we have the responsibility of looking at the built environment of the Americas through our own lenses. Spatial Theories for the Americas proposes a fundamental step in that direction.

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À propos de l'auteur

Fernando Luiz Lara is professor of architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil and coauthor of Street Matters: A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil and Modern Architecture in Latin America.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822968533
• ISBN 13: 9780822968535
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
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