Americas

This book presents the making of Mexican modernist architecture mainly through five power structures : academic, social status, economic/political, gender, and post-colonial, and through interviews with thirteen key Mexican architects.

Surveying the cutting edge of Mexican architecture from the past two years.

A monograph focusing on the study of the most active European designers in 1940s Peru, including the Austrian Richard Neutra, the German-born Paul Lester Wiener and the Spaniard Josep Lluis Sert.

A visual celebration of New York's Legendary summer retreat as the vanguard of residential design today

This book looks at Chicago through the prism of Post-Modernism by presenting 100 structures, most of which were created after the turn of the millennium with building descriptions supplemented by introductory essays and interviews with Chicago architects including Stanley Tigerman, Helmut Jahn Jeanne Gang.

This title illustrates the complexity of a South American city founded in 1567 which forges a coherent identity with El Avila and the coastline, where different scales, geographies, architectural styles and natural and urban landscapes converge. This guide outlines the city's history with reference to its most striking architecture dating from app

New approaches to nature, landscape, and territory were key in the jury's and architect's architecture discussions during the second cycle of the MCHAP prize. This book puts together the finalist projects with a selection of articles, dialogues and visual essays, providing a particular set of lenses with which to look at the newest architecture of the Americas.

A compact architectural history of Manhattan with six walks that guide readers along New York's most glamorous street