| Summary: | The United States and Mexico share a 2000-mile boundary where landscape and architecture clash in a vivid contrast of two cultures. This is an exploration of the architectural future of interdependent neighbours who share a history, an economy and a landscape in the borderlands of northern Mexico and the south-western United States. After reviewing three key periods in Mexico's 3000-year-old architectural past - indigenous, Spanish colonization, and modern - author Lawrence A. Herzog then focuses on the border territories of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, particularly the California border region. He traces southwestern architecture from its origins to present-day barrios and illegal living spaces in Mexican immigrant neighbourhoods.
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