From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico-United States Border (Creating the North American Landscape)

Author: Herzog, Professor Lawrence A.

Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press

Features:

• Used Book in Good Condition

Number Of Pages: 264

EAN: 9780801860096

Release Date: 16-03-1999

Package Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches

Languages: English

Binding: hardcover

Details: The United States and Mexico share a two-thousand-mile boundary where landscape and architecture clash in a vivid contrast of two cultures. From Aztec to High Tech explores the architectural future of interdependent neighbors who share a history, an economy, and a landscape. After reviewing three key periods in Mexico's three-thousand-year-old architectural past -- indigenous, Spanish colonial, and modern -- urban planning scholar Lawrence A. Herzog focuses on the border territories of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, particularly in California.
Through eighty black-and-white photographs and interviews with architects from both sides of the border, this engaging book provides a compelling picture of how traditional Mexican architecture has intersected with the postindustrial, high-tech urban style of the United States -- a mix that offers an alternative to the homogenization of architecture north of the international border.