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

By Lawrence A. Herzog

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080186643X
• ISBN13: 9780801866432
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"