Latin American architecture

Table of Contents

Introduction
The colonial period, c. 1492–1810
- The conquest of Amerindian cities and the first American building
- The first Spanish viceroyalties and their capitals
- The new urban strategy: Checkerboard plans and the Laws of the Indies
- Renaissance and Mannerist architecture in the New World
- Military architecture
- The Baroque in the New World
- Seventeenth- and 18th-century architecture in Ecuador, Colombia, and Cuba
- Eighteenth-century architecture in Mexico
- Indigenous influences
- Ouro Prêto: Brazilian Baroque architecture in the 18th century
- The new institutions of government
Postindependence, c. 1810–the present
- Architecture of the new independent republics, c. 1810–70
- Academic architecture, c. 1870–1914
- The reaction against academic architecture, c. 1900–29
  - Art Nouveau
  - Nationalist architecture
  - Art Deco
- The birth of modern architecture, c. 1929–65
  - Brazil
  - Mexico
  - Venezuela
  - Uruguay
  - Argentina
- Contemporary architecture, c. 1965–the present

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