ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the impact of the European modern in Latin America by focusing on a few representative cases of architects and their projects in Mexico and Brazil. In these cases, as well as in Argentina, the modern was to a larger degree imported from Europe during the interwar period and divulged as a dominant current earlier than in other countries of Latin America, such as Colombia or Venezuela. Regarding the training of Latin American architects in studios of the European avant-garde, again the case of Le Corbusier is the most prominent, with a long list of Latin Americans working under the architect as trainees or collaborating architects. Latin American architecture was reviewed for the first time in 1952, on the occasion of the VIII Congreso Panamericano de Arquitectos that took place in Mexico that same year.
