Architecture in South America - First Mies Van Der Rohe Award 1999 (English, Spanish, Paperback)

With the creation of its award for Latin American Architecture, the Mies van der Rohe Foundation set out both to stimulate reflection both on the state of architecture on this continent and to further the dialogue between the European and Latin American architectural cultures. This book documents the inaugural Mies van der Rohe Prize for Latin American Architecture, awarded in 1998 to the firm TEN Arquitectos and its founders Enrique Norten and Bernardo Gomez-Pimienta for their multifunctional building for Televisa in Mexico City. As Miquiel Adria writes, "TEN Arquitectos represent the vanguard in the relatively conservative context of Mexican society. They use information as a sharp eclectic instrument to interweave the mechanomorphic movement of High-Tech and the California contextualism of Morphosis into the abstract volumes of Supermodernism". Among the other twenty-four finalists whose projects are reproduced in this volume are Pablo Tomas Beitia's Xul Solar Museum in Buenos Aires; Gaston Boero, Fernando Fabiano, and Silvia Perossio's Jewish Holocaust Memorial in Uruguay; Laureano Forero Ochoa's community center in Colombia; and Oscar Niemeyer's Museum of Contemporary Art in Rio de Janeiro.