From Aztec to high tech

Description:

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.

subjects: Influence,  Mexican American architecture,  Relations,  Architecture,  Architecture and society,  Architecture, mexico,  Mexico, relations, foreign countries,  Southwest, new, description and travel,  Architecture, united states,  United states, relations, mexico,  International relations,  Architecture et société,  Architektur,  Grenzgebiet

Places: North Mexico,  New Southwest