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Latin American Houses

Latin American Houses
 

Judging by the cover, this looks to have some interesting homes…

“Focusing on one-family houses that have been built over the past decade, this lively new title explores the elegance and innovation with which today’s Latin American architects evolve their modernist heritage. In some cases, as with Chilean Smiljan Radic Clarke’s Pite House – a dramatic concrete bunker that cantilevers over a rough Pacific shoreline – the lineage is clear, as are the materials and strategies used to contend with often inhospitable locations. Others, like Mexican architect Michel Rojkind’s bright red “ribbon” PR 34 House, reveal forms better known in such places as Japan. Wherever their location or material, however, the nineteen houses presented in Daguerre’s new book are indication that Latin American architects are not content resting on their laurels.”

[posted by katie]

 

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