Building the New World keyword-global-history national interest

national interest

In a series of coruscating set pieces he asks why we put ourselves through the pains of exercise

revealing a web of concealment and corruption involving senior politicians

Guy Standing

Building the New World keyword-global-history national interestThe period between 1930 and 1960 in particular saw a dramatic upsurge in Latin American modern architecture as the various governments strove to make public their modernising intentions. After 1960, however, the year in which Brasilia was inaugurated, economic growth in the region slowed and the modernist project faltered. The English speaking world, which had previously admired Latin American buildings, began to write them out of the history of