HHIS-293A: Modern Latin Amer Architecture

This course examines the development of architecture and urbanism in Latin America within a context of significant social, political, and cultural transition. We will depart from the late nineteenth-century, a period of independence and a search for self-identity, and gradually move to the late-twentieth century. We will pay close attention to the dynamic relation of the tension in the shifts from colonialism to modernization of Latin America, particularly architecture's unique role at the intersection of politics, art, and economics. Topics will include positivism, functionalism, nationalism, indigenism, internationalism, tropicalism, utopianism, Brasilia, Buenos Aires, and Habana, and the university cities of Caracas and Mexico City.