Modern architectures in Central America /
"This book offers an overview of different forms of modern architecture in Central America since the beginning of the twentieth century. Even if modern architecture constituted only a small percentage of the total building production in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Montreal ; Amsterdam :
The Architecture Observer,
[2023]
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| Summary: | "This book offers an overview of different forms of modern architecture in Central America since the beginning of the twentieth century. Even if modern architecture constituted only a small percentage of the total building production in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, they hold in these countries an evident symbolic significanance. Often they functioned as models for the desired societal, economic, and cultural changes, or as aspirational placeholders for a future state of modernity."--Back cover. |
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| Item Description: | "Outcome of a symposium, held in 2016, in the Roberto Sasso Auditorioum at the Universidad Veritas ..."--Page 10. |
| Physical Description: | 157 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9492058189 9789492058188 |