Architecture and Design of Latin America and the Caribbean

Examines the material, aesthetic and historical aspects of LACMA's notable holdings of Spanish American art.

Explores the history of the confluence of styles, materials, and techniques among Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas through the end of the colonial era––a period marked by the independence movements, the formation of national states, and the rise of academic art.

Explores the theoretical and architectural connections between memory, values, cultural identity, and adaptive reuse in Latin America. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Features residential and commercial projects, including plans, from across Latin America. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

The promotion of classicism in the visual arts in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Latin America and the need to "revive" buen gusto (good taste) are the themes of this collection of essays. The contributors provide new insights into neoclassicism and buen gusto as cultural, not just visual, phenomena in the late colonial and early national periods and promote new approaches to the study of Latin American art history and visual culture. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Surveys the art and architecture created in the Spanish Viceroyalties of New Spain, Peru, New Granada, and La Plata from the time of the conquest to the independence era. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores the colonial period's enhanced architectural investment--its successes, its failures, and the conflicts it provoked globally. Topics include fire and building permanence in 18th-century Japan and England; and colonial architecture in the Philippines, the Pacific Coast of North American, China, Jamaica, Peru, South Carolina, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Australia. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Covers urban and architectural histories from the 19th and 20th centuries, along with detailed building analyses and essays about both well-known and less familiar architects. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Provides a survey with key examples/ paradigms arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, covering a myriad of countries; historical, social, and political conditions; and projects/developments that range from small houses to urban plans to architectural movements. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

An collection of writings, ranging from the late fifteenth century to the present day, that explore questions relating to what it means to be "Latin American" and/or "Latino." Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Academic essays along with profiles of recent commercial and residential projects in countries throughout Latin America. Plans are included for many projects. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores the critical potential inherent in the notion of "transculturation" in order to understand contemporary architectural practices and their cultural realities in Latin America. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).