Art in Transnational Architecture: Paul F. Damaz's Popularization of the Synthesis of the Arts Between Europe and Latin America

Abstract

A study on the writings of Portuguese-American architect Paul F. Damaz, who popularized a discourse on the synthesis of the arts—European and Latin American tendencies at the crossroads of modernism and postwar reconstruction. This article proposes that he developed a comparative analysis, which legitimized modernizing initiatives in the context of the postwar European reconstruction and the rise of Cold War developmentalism, or Latin American desarrollismo .