From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico-United States Border (Creating the North American Landscape) - Softcover

Herzog, Lawrence A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080186643X ISBN 13: 9780801866432

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

Synopsis

The United States and Mexico share a two-thousand-mile boundary where landscape and architecture clash in a vivid contrast of two cultures. From Aztec to High Tech explores the architectural future of interdependent neighbors who share a history, an economy, and a landscape. After reviewing three key periods in Mexico's three-thousand-year-old architectural past―indigenous, Spanish colonial, and modern―urban planning scholar Lawrence A. Herzog focuses on the border territories of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, particularly in California.

Through eighty black-and-white photographs and interviews with architects from both sides of the border, this engaging book provides a compelling picture of how traditional Mexican architecture has intersected with the postindustrial, high-tech urban style of the United States―a mix that offers an alternative to the homogenization of architecture north of the international border.

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About the Author

Lawrence A. Herzog is a professor of city planning in the School of Public Administration and Urban Studies at San Diego State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080186643X
• ISBN 13: 9780801866432
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264