Transculturation : cities, spaces and architectures in Latin America / / edited by Felipe Hernández, Mark Millington and Iain Borden.

• Superior document: Critical studies ; 27
• TeilnehmendeR: Hernández, Felipe.; Millington, Mark.; Borden, Iain.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 27.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Reconfiguring the Caribbean’s Sense of Place: From Fixed Identity to Fluid Hybridity /; The Construction of Home in the Informal City /; From Austin, Texas to Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala and Back Again /; Changing Perceptions of National Identity in Brazilian Art and Modern Architecture /; Chopin to the Electric Chair!: The Mexican Avant-Garde and the Revolutionised City /; Landscapes of Confusion: The Urban Imaginaries of Néstor García Canclini and Kevin Lynch /; Colonising the Land: Heimat and the Constructed Landscapes of Mexico’s Ciudad Universitaria (1943–1953) /; Translation Theory and Translational Architectures: Reading between History, Architecture and Cultural Theory /; Cement and Multiculturalism /; Syncretism, Wonder and Memory in the Work of Rogelio Salmona /; Niemeyer’s Casino and the Misdeeds of Brazilian Architecture /; Trope of the Tropics: The Baroque in Modern Brazilian Architecture, 1940-1950 /; Transculturation: Taking Stock /; Notes on Contributors /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9401201242; 1423791487
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Felipe Hernández, Mark Millington and Iain Borden.

Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America explores the critical potential inherent in the notion of “transculturation” in order to understand contemporary architectural practices and their cultural realities in Latin America. Despite its enormous theoretical potential and its importance within Latin American cultural theory, the term transculturation had never permeated into architectural debates. In fact, none of the main architectural theories produced in and about Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century engaged seriously with this notion as a way to analyze the complex social, cultural and political circumstances that affect the development of the continent’s cities, its urban spaces and its architectures. Therefore, this book demonstrates, for the first time, that the term transculturation is an invaluable tool in dismantling the essentialist, genealogical and hierarchical perspectives from which Latin American architectural practices have been viewed. Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America introduces new readings and interpretations of the work of well-known architects, new analyses regarding the use of architectural materials and languages, new questions to do with minority architectures, gender and travel, and, from beginning to end, it engages with important political and theoretical debates that have rarely been broached within Latin American architectural circles.