Since the early twentieth century, Latin America has been home to some of the most compelling archictecture - from the large-scale and otherworldly civic structures of the Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer to the more intimate work of Mexico's Luis Barragn.In her new book LATIN AMERICAN HOUSES, Mercedes Daguerre shows that this tradition of architectural innovation lives on in the work of such contemporary architects as 2006 Pritzker Prize winner Paulo Mendes da Rocha (Brazil), Mathias Klotz (Chile), Angelo Bucci (Argentina), and LBC Arquitectos (Mexico), among others.Focusing on one-family houses that have been built over the past decade, this lively new title explores the elegance and innovation with which today's Latin American architects evolve their modernist heritage.In some cases, as with Chilean Smiljan Radic Clarke's Pite House - a dramatic concrete bunker that cantilevers over a rough Pacific shoreline - the lineage is clear, as are the materials and strategies used to contend with often inhospitable locations.Others, like Mexican architect Michel Rojkind's bright red "ribbon" PR 34 House, reveal forms better known in such places as Japan.Wherever their location or material, however, the nineteen houses presented in Daguerre's new book are indication that Latin American architects are not content resting on their laurels

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• Andrade & Morettin: alessandro's house Brazil 1998
• Alejandro Aravena: house on lake pirehueico Chile 2004
• Javier Artadi: house at Las Casuarinas Peru 2005
• Felipe Assadi: casa schmitz Chile 2002
• Barclay & Crousse: houses on la escondida beach Peru 2001 2003
• Clusellas & Colle: house at Jose Ignacio Uruguay 2005
• GA grupo arquitectura / Daniel Alvarez: casa Izar Mexico 2002
• Alberto Kalach: casa negro Mexico 2000
• Mathias Klotz: casa ponce Argentina 2003
• Marcio Kogan: casa du plessis Brazil 2003
• Leopoldo Laguinge: detached house Argentina 1998
• LBC arquitectos / Alfonso Lopez Baz and Javier Calleja: house at Bosques de Santa Fe Maxico 2003
• LMC / Fernando Romero: casa Ixtapa Mexico 2001
• Paulo Mendes de Rocha: casa prata arcuschin Brazil 2005
• MMBB arquitetos / Anfelo Bucci: Detached house Brazil 2002
• Procter & Rihl: casa slice Brazil 2004
• Smiljan Radic: casa pite Chile 2005
• Michel Rojkind: casa PR 34 Mexico 2004
• Christian Undurraga: house on lake colico Chile 2004