{"product_id":"spatial-theories-for-the-americas-fernando-luiz-lara-9780822968535","title":"Spatial Theories for the Americas: Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism","description":"\u003cb\u003eShortlist, 2025 Architectural Book Award in Architectural Theory\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo study the built environment of the Americas is to wrestle with an inherent contradiction. While the disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter, the overwhelming majority of canonical knowledge and the vernacular used to describe these disciplines comes from Europe, a very different continent. With this book, Fernando Luiz Lara discusses several theories of space--drawing on cartography, geography, anthropology, and architecture--and proposes counterweights to five centuries of Eurocentrism. The first part of \u003ci\u003eSpatial Theories for the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e offers a critique of Eurocentrism in the discipline of architecture, problematizing its theoretical foundation in relation to the inseparability of modernization and colonization. The second part makes explicit the insufficiencies of a hegemonic Western tradition at the core of spatial theories by discussing a long list of authors who have thought about the Americas. To overcome centuries of Eurocentrism, Lara concludes, will require a tremendous effort, but, nonetheless, scholars and architects of the Americas have the responsibility of looking at their built environments through their own lenses. \u003ci\u003eSpatial Theories for the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a fundamental step in that direction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fernando Luiz Lara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822968533\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822968535\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Fernando Luiz Lara","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852844642559,"sku":"9780822968535","price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spatial-theories-for-the-americas-fernando-luiz-lara-9780822968535","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}