ABSTRACT
During the first half of the 20th century, the dissemination of images of urban and architectonic projects – built or unbuilt – in Latin America, had a special reception in some European journals, whose global reach promoted the recognition of the spatial modernization achieved by some Latin American cities. Along with these images, new urban narratives – whose origins were in European and North American schools – were also transmitted. This is made evident through the professional connections and networks built by Latin American architects and urban planners who studied in Europe and in the United States, and later applied their newly acquired knowledge in their countries of origin. In this regard, this article analyzes the content from special issues of L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui that were devoted to Latin American cities and/or their architecture, emphasizing the context – both professional and editorial – in which those thematic issues were created.
