COMUNICACIÓN Y PRENSA

The book we are recommending this month is a collection of essays that seeks to systematize the rich panorama of Orientalist architecture in Latin America, an often neglected subject in general historiography, which has tended to focus on Central Europe, Britain and North America.

The book’s theoretical contributions on Orientalism in Latin America transport us to the different regions of the Continent, describing the most influential figures and/or most striking buildings in order to help us understand how and why the Orientalist aesthetic arrived in Latin America. 

This study is completed with an inventory of buildings structured in alphabetical order of countries, from Argentina to Venezuela. This inventory provides information about 169 buildings, detailing the name of the building, the postal address, the name of the architect, designer or engineer, and the date of construction, together with a picture of the building.

Copies of this book are available at the Library of the Council of the Alhambra and Generalife