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

Lawrence A.Herzog

ISBN 10: 0801860091 / ISBN 13: 9780801860096

Published by John Hopkins University Press, 1999

About this Item

From Aztec to High Tech by Lawrence A. Herzog is a nonfiction book published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1999. This 1st edition hardcover book explores cultural geography and art & culture, specifically focusing on the transition from Aztec to modern technology in the 1990s. With 248 pages, this book offers a unique perspective on the evolution of civilizations and societies. The author, Lawrence A. Herzog, provides a detailed narrative in English that delves into the complexities of this cultural shift.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape Across the Mexico-United States Border (Creating the North American Landscape)
• Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801860091
• ISBN 13: 9780801860096
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Weight: 2 pounds

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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.

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.