Modern Architecture of Quito

Christian Parreno is Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at San Francisco University of Quito, Ecuador. He is the author of Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience (Bloomsbury, 2021).

• AcknowledgementsForeword, Lara Schrijver (University of Antwerp, Belgium)Approaching 1. Architectures of the In-Between - Christian Parreno (San Francisco de Quito University, Ecuador)2. Kenneth Frampton’s “Towards a Critical Regionalism”: A Retreat from Postmodernism or a Visionary Plea for a Resilient Future? - Véronique Patteeuw (ENSAP Lille, France) and Léa-Catherine Szacka (University of Manchester, UK)Encountering3. The Maze of El Panecillo, or the Impossible Roundabout - Cristina Bueno (San Francisco de Quito University, Ecuador)4. Architecture for Pan-Americanism: Local Aspirations, Regional Interests, and the (Unrealized) Inter-American Conference of Quito of 1959 - Ernesto Bilbao (Auburn University, USA)5. Modern Houses on the Slopes of Quito - Marcelo Banderas (San Francisco de Quito University, Ecuador)6. The Motel, a Neighborhood in Quito: The Adaptation of an Imported Type - Karina Cazar and Ana María Carrión (both San Francisco de Quito University, Ecuador)Extrapolating7. Our North Is the South: Reflections from a Meeting on Teaching the History of Latin American Architecture - Ana María León (Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA) and Fernando Luis Martínez (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)8. Neither Black nor White: The In-Between Position of Latin Modern Architects - Ana Esteban-Maluenda (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain)9. The Universal, the Global, the Regional, and the Local: Toward an Architecture of Place - Karen Rogers (Auburn University, USA)ContributorsIndex