Arquitectura moderna y modernización urbanística en Latino América (1930 – 1950):: una revisión de las perspectivas y los métodos utilizados para su abordaje en la historiografía local ; Modern architecture and urban modernization in Latin America (1930-1950):: a review of the perspectives and methods used to approach them in local historiography

The expression of modern architecture and urbanism in Latin America appear as the objects of local historiography in the early 1970s, when they have already been placed in the chapter of peripheral reproductions by the builders of the international canon. Since then, the construction of the history of the modern experience in the region has been approached from different perspectives. If the first stories aim to serve the critique of contemporary production, as early as the 1980s, historiographical propositions took shape to abandon the canonical story and to interpret modern architecture in Latin America through a series of circumstances that emerge from the local contexts. In the 1990s, an exacerbated regionalism elaborates a discourse raised from the dependency perspective to endorse certain professional practice aimed at expressing the American identity. Such a position has been diluted during the last two decades, giving rise to approaches that cross disciplinary knowledge by other knowledge and contemplate the imprints of previously ignored actors, replacingthe single story with a multiplicity of stories and giving greaterdensity to the interpretation. ; Las manifestaciones de la arquitectura y el urbanismo modernos en latino América aparecen como objeto de la historiografía local a principios de la década de 1970, cuando ya han sido colocadas en el capítulo de las reproducciones periféricas por los constructores del canon internacional. Desde ese momento, la construcción de la historia de la experiencia moderna en la región ha sido abordada desde diferentes perspectivas. Si los primeros relatos apuntan a servir a la crítica de la producción contemporánea, ya en la década de 1980 toman forma planteos historiográficos tendientes a abandonar el relato canónico y a interpretar a la arquitectura moderna en latino América a través de una serie de circunstancias que emergen de los contextos locales. En la década de 1990, un exacerbado regionalismo elabora un discurso planteado desde la perspectiva de la ...