VT (for all of my design-obsessed peeps)

photocourtesypascalarquitectos Peeps, Modern design, particularly in architecture, interiors, and home furnishings, has long been a mainstay of our southern neighbors, such as the countries of Mexico, Brazil, and Uruguay.  If one expects to wander into any of the capital cities and revel in the sights or sounds made famous by the late, great travel writers of the 70's, rest assured that you're much too late. The ubiquitous tile-roofed hacienda filled with colonial furnishings and ancestor paintings, or market-stalls heaped with silver and gold crafts tended by unknowing merchants is long gone. And now replaced by design-savvy architects and designers who have mined the long history of modernity in Latin America to produce show-stopping projects which both embrace new technology as well as reflect the traditional design vernacular.  I believe that Octavio Paz would have been surprised at the bravado and passion with which design professionals in the major cities in Mexic...