Acknowledgements Foreword, Lara Schrijver (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Approaching 1. Architectures of the In-Between - Christian Parreno ( San Francisco de Quito University, Ecuador) 2. Kenneth Frampton's "Towards a Critical Regionalism": A Retreat from Postmodernism or a Visionary Plea for a Resilient Future? - Véronique Patteeuw ( ENSAP Lille, France) and Léa-Catherine Szacka ( University of Manchester, UK) Encountering 3. The Maze of El Panecillo, or the Impossible Roundabout - Cristina Bueno ( San Francisco de Quito University, Ecuador) 4. Architecture for Pan-Americanism: Local Aspirations, Regional Interests, and the (Unrealized) Inter-American Conference of Quito of 1959 - Ernesto Bilbao ( Auburn University, USA) 5. Modern Houses on the Slopes of Quito - Marcelo Banderas ( San Francisco de Quito University, Ecuador) 6. The Motel, a Neighborhood in Quito: The Adaptation of an Imported Type - Karina Cazar and Ana María Carrión (both San Francisco de Quito University, Ecuador) Extrapolating 7. Our North Is the South: Reflections from a Meeting on Teaching the History of Latin American Architecture - Ana María León ( Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA) and Fernando Luis Martínez (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) 8.

Neither Black nor White: The In-Between Position of Latin Modern Architects - Ana Esteban-Maluenda (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain) 9. The Universal, the Global, the Regional, and the Local: Toward an Architecture of Place - Karen Rogers ( Auburn University, USA) Contributors Index.