The Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil

Informationen zum Autor Fernando Luiz Lara is assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan. Klappentext Fernando Luiz Lara investigates how and why modern architecture became so popular in his native country, tracking the path of the dissemination as well as the economic, cultural, and political conditions that made it possible. He views it as a direct extension of the optimism and relative stability that spread throughout the country beginning in the 1950s. Zusammenfassung During the mid-twentieth century! Brazil as a country seemed to be fascinated with modernism. This title investigates how and why modern architecture became so popular in this country! tracking the path of the dissemination as well as the economic! cultural! and political conditions that made it possible.

Product details

• Authors: Fernando Luiz Lara, Fernando Luiz/ Holston Lara
• Publisher: University Press Of Florida
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2008
• EAN: 9780813032894
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-3289-4
• No. of pages: 149
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture