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

Herzog, Lawrence A.

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ISBN 10: 0801860091 ISBN 13: 9780801860096

Casa editrice: Center for Us-Mexican Studies, 1999

Riassunto

Herzog (city planning, San Diego State U.) looks at architecture in northern Mexico during the indigenous, colonial, and modern periods to explore the flow of styles back and forth across the border. He finds that cultural integration is blurring the stereotype of adobe, tarpaper, and cement blocks south of the border and glass, steel, and wood-framed stucco suburbs to the north. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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"A good introduction for the general reader." -- David Steinberg, Albuquerque Journal

"Herzog reflects on the two-thousand-mile border between Mexico and the U.S. that stretches between San Diego, California, and Brownsville, Texas... Herzog perceives this area in terms of a crisis of 'space and place,' conveying loss of identity and loss of community. He has personally interviewed architects, investigated buildings, and covered much of the ground of the book, reaching all the way back to Aztec Mexico." -- Choice

"The author creatively captures the tension between memory and futurism, between old and new, and ponders what the twenty-first century will be." -- Joseph L. Scarpaci, Latin American Research Review

"This is a fascinating study, and one that is very relevant to our rapidly evolving age." -- British Bulletin of Publications

"From Aztec to High Tech is full of interest and ideas... Scott's approach is essentially chronological and the geographical range is very broad... [making the book] a much more stimulating read." -- Valerie Fraser, Journal of Latin American Studies

L'autore

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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Center for Us-Mexican Studies
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801860091
• ISBN 13: 9780801860096
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 241
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile