Fernando Luiz Lara investigates how and why modern architecture became so popular in his native country, tracking the path of the dissemination as well as the economic, cultural, and political conditions that made it possible. He views it as a direct extension of the optimism and relative stability that spread throughout the country beginning in the 1950s.
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Fernando Luiz Lara investigates how and why modern architecture became so popular in his native country, tracking the path of the dissemination as well as the economic, cultural, and political conditions that made it possible. He views it as a direct extension of the optimism and relative stability that spread throughout the country beginning in the 1950s.
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Near Fine in Near fine jacket. First printing, 2008, hardcover with red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 149pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with mild bump to foredge of front board, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with hint of rubbing, wear, now in archival mylar wrap.
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8vo. xvi, 149, [1] pp. Double-page title, with photo illustrations & blueprints. Red boards, black lettering, w/ d.j., NF/NF copy, inscribed by the author on half-title to Dr. Rochelle Martin, former professor of Architecture at Wayne State Univ. in Detroit, MI. First edition, inscribed, of this excellent work which embraces how Brazilians incorporated Modern Architecture into their everyday dwellings and housing, molding a middle-class culture.
