Eugenics in the Garden: Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity

by Fabiola Laopez-Duraan and Fabiola Lopez-Duran

Book Overview

Winner, Robert Motherwell Book Award, Outstanding Book on Modernism in the Arts, The Dedalus Foundation, 2019

As Latin American elites strove to modernize their cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted the eugenic theory that improvements to the physical environment would lead to improvements in the human race. Based on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's theory of the "inheritance of acquired characteristics," this strain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477314962
• ISBN13: 9781477314968
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.9"