Beyond Modernist Masters: Contemporary Architecture in Latin America

Abstract

The book is consisted of the introduction of Contemporary Architecture in Latin American in terms of Modernist of Master Architects and beyond. The secondary subjects preferred to describe the transitions and contexts of Latin America Countries: Nation – Building and Universalisation: The Era of Large – Scale Building, The Inscription of Latin American Buildings in The History of Modern Architecture (1929 – 1960), and Contemporary Architectures in Latin America. The first chapter, ‘Building on the City’s Edge’, examines the architectures/buildings located on the edges between planned and unplanned areas of cities which related to urban planning strategies. The Dealing with rapid change, common people, construction of neighbourhoods, governments plan, community settlement, and the development of local community are subjected.