Transculturation
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Foreword
Felipe HERNÁNDEZ: Introduction: Transcultural Architectures in Latin America
Section One: Space, Place and Identity
Monika KAUP and Robert MUGERAUER: Reconfiguring the Caribbean’s Sense of Place: From Fixed Identity to Fluid Hybridity
Peter KELLETT: The Construction of Home in the Informal City
Jane RENDELL: From Austin, Texas to Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala and Back Again
Michael ASBURY: Changing Perceptions of National Identity in Brazilian Art and Modern Architecture
Section Two: Re-Viewing the City
Luis CARRANZA: Chopin to the Electric Chair!: The Mexican Avant-Garde and the Revolutionised City
Anny BROOKSBANK-JONES: Landscapes of Confusion: The Urban Imaginaries of Néstor García Canclini and Kevin Lynch
Helen THOMAS: Colonising the Land: Heimat and the Constructed Landscapes of Mexico’s Ciudad Universitaria (1943–1953)
Section Three: Theorising Architectures
Felipe HERNÁNDEZ: Translation Theory and Translational Architectures: Reading between History, Architecture and Cultural Theory
Adrian FORTY: Cement and Multiculturalism
Ricardo L. CASTRO: Syncretism, Wonder and Memory in the Work of Rogelio Salmona
Carlos Eduardo DIAS COMAS: Niemeyer’s Casino and the Misdeeds of Brazilian Architecture
Sandra VIVANCO: Trope of the Tropics: The Baroque in Modern Brazilian Architecture, 1940–1950
Conclusion
Mark MILLINGTON: Transculturation: Taking Stock
Contributors
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