Author: DECKKER, Zilah Quezado
Title: Brazil Built - The Architecture of the Modern Movement in Brazil.
Description: London, Spon Press, 2001. 24.5 x 19 cm. xiii,[1],53 pp. Softcover. Illustrated in b/w and colour. - Brazil Built is an examination of the architecture of the Modern Movement in Brazil. In the 1940s and 1950s, Brazil acquired unprecedented prestige in the world of Modern architecture. Brazil was regarded as the country which had inherited the progressive Modernism of the pre-war period in Europe, and which, furthermore, had initiated a new phase of the assimilation of cultural and environmental considerations. - This book constitutes a unique presentation of the major Modern buildings in Brazil in a historical context. - Fine copy

Keywords: 9780415231787


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