Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1940–1978

Contributors and essay topics include:

• "Lingua Franca for the Future" by Gabriela Rangel
• "Cannibal Homes: Additive Modernity and Design by Absorption in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela, 1940–1979" by Jorge F. Rivas Pérez
• "Miguel Arroyo and Pottery" by Lourdes Blanco
• "Social Utopia and Modern Design in Latin America" by Ana Elena Mallet
• "Modern Lifestyles: Clara Porset and the Art of Exhibiting the Mexican Home" by Christina L. De León
• "Modern Brazilian Design" by Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos
• "Design’s Bureaucratic Unconscious" by Luis M. Castañeda
• "Exhibition of a Modernist House (considerations)" by Mário de Andrade
• "North American Interiors: Contemporary Examples" by Clara Porset
• "Modern Furniture for a Colonial House" by Miguel Arroyo
• "Living Design: In Search of Our Own Kind of Furniture" by Clara Porset
• "In South America: After Le Corbusier, What Is Happening?" by Lina Bo Bardi
• "Ambient Planning: 'Design' at an Impasse" by Lina Bo Bardi
• "Tecla Tofano: Ars Politica" by Marta Traba
• "Lesson in Architecture Lesson — for Oscar Niemeyer" by Ferreira Gullar
• "Interview with Oscar Niemeyer" by Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos
• "Interview with Sergio Rodrigues" by Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos
• "Designer Biographies" by Amanda York

Learn more about the exhibition.

Complete with plates section, exhibition checklist, and bibliography.

Hardcover: 280 pages

Price: $50 (non-member) / $40 (AS member). To purchase this catalogue, please contact: artgallery@as-coa.org