Latin American Houses

Following up on her successful book 20 Houses by 20 Architects, critic and historian Mercedes Daguerre explores Latin America's modernist tradition through the one-family houses of the region's best and brightest contemporary architects. The book covers nineteen structures built in Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, and Argentina.-li-The work of 19 of Latin America's most innovative contemporary architects -li-Generous landscape format captures expansive horizontal nature of houses -li-Introductory text traces development of Latin-American modernism from early twentieth century to present