WORLD’S CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE 11
Latin America
Yuichi Ino and Shinji Koike [Editors]
Yuichi Ino and Shinji Koike [Editors]: WORLD’S CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE 11 [Latin America]. Tokyo: Shokokusha Publishing Co., 1955. First edition. Text in Japanese with English headers and captions. Embossed paper covered boards titled in black and paper label to spine. Photo illustrated dust jacket. 94 pp. Fully illustrated in black and white. Endpapers lightly offsetted from jacket flaps. Jacket faintly rubbed. Jacket design by Hiromu Hara. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. Uncommon.
8.5 x 11.75 hardcover book with 94 pages profusely illustrated with black and white photographs and floor plans for 26 contemporary structures in Mexico [x 8], Cuba[x 3], Colombia[x 4], Argentina [x 2], Uruguay[x 1], and Brazil[x 8].
Includes work by Mario Pani, Salvador Ortega, Vladimir Kaspé, Manuel Gonzales Rul, Lorenzo Carrasco, Guillermo Rossel, Enrique De La Mora, Fernando Barbará Zetina, José Hanhausen, Jesus Garcia Collantes, Eugenio Basta, Eduardo Montoulieu, Jr., Alvaro Ortega, Gabriel Solano, Jorge Gaitan, Guillermo Gonzales, Antonio Bonet, Amancio Williams, Alfonso Eduardo Reidy, Oscar Niemeyer, Marcelo Roberto, Milton Roberto, Mauricio Roberto, Alvaro Vital Brazil, Ademar Marino, Lucio Costa, Alfonso Reidy, Carlos Leao, Jorge Moreira, Ernani Vasconcelos, Eduardo Kneese De Mello, and Lucian Korngold.
This volume offers an international perspective on modern architecture and features some of the more buget-conscious, lesser-known structures of the period, thus supplying a more unique perspective than similar volumes that tend to showcase the iconic residences. In terms of decor, there is none of that Chippendale jive here-- every residential interior is decked out in full midcentury glory. Recommended.