From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico-United States Border

by Lawrence A. Herzog

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.

264 pages, Paperback

First published March 16, 1999

Reviews

[Ninajean · Rating 3 out of 5]

this book was exciting i guess and not the best but still good.