N E W I N PA P E R B A C K
Designing Pan-America U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere ROBERT A. GONZÁLEZ
“Designing Pan-America is an important survey of the architectural culture generated by Washington geopolitics for building the idea of the Western Hemisphere between the global expansion of US empire around 1800 and its seeming regression around 1970. It impressively demonstrates the synergy between diplomatic designs and the design of diplomatic sites. The visual research is vast and striking, a capacious trove vibrantly rendered in color. Consequently, this good read provides a fresh perspective on both the history of international ideas in action and the idea of the Americas in (mainly) the United States.”—hispa nic a merica n his torica l re vie w “González draws from considerable archival research to show how an array of built expressions engage and ossify the ideological formation of Pan-Americanism. This work offers much to scholarship exploring recent cultural and political shifts in North America agitating for the construction of intra-American walls and the policing of borders.” — we s t ern a merica n li t er at ure
Robert A. González is the dean of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico.
52
release date | september 10 x 10 inches, 280 pages
ISBN 978-1-4773-2667-1
$45.00* | £36.00 | C$55.95 paperback
U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S P R E S S | FA L L 2 0 2 2
