MODERN ARCHITECTURES IN CENTRAL AMERICA

The Architecture Observer offers an overview of different forms of modern architecture in Central America since the outset of the 20th century. Although modern architectures constituted only a small percentage of the total building production in Guat
emala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, they hold in these countries an evident symbolic significance. Such buildings functioned as models for the desired societal, economic, and cultural changes, or as aspirational placehold
ers for a future state of modernity. With contributions by Mauricio Quiros Pacheco, Andres Fernandez, Hans Ibelings, Gloria Grimaldi, Sandra Gutierrez, Martin Majewsky, and others.