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Modern Architecture in Mexico City
Author | : Kathryn E. O'Rourke |
Publsiher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017-03-10 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780822981626 |
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Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories of Mexican colonial architecture, which suggested that Mexico possessed a distinctive architecture and culture, beginning in the 1920s a new generation of architects created profoundly visual modern buildings intended to convey Mexico’s unique cultural character. By midcentury these architects and their students had rewritten the country’s architectural history and transformed the capital into a metropolis where new buildings that evoked pre-conquest, colonial, and International Style architecture coexisted. Through an exploration of schools, a university campus, a government ministry, a workers’ park, and houses for Diego Rivera and Luis Barragán, Kathryn O’Rourke offers a new interpretation of modern architecture in the Mexican capital, showing close links between design, evolving understandings of national architectural history, folk art, and social reform. This book demonstrates why creating a distinctively Mexican architecture captivated architects whose work was formally dissimilar, and how that concern became central to the profession.
Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico
Author | : Edward R. Burian |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2010-06-28 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780292791664 |
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Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contemporary architectural culture and as a reaction to neoconservative postmodernism. This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of the notion of modernity in Mexican architecture and its influence on a generation of Mexican architects whose works spanned the 1920s through the 1960s. Nine essays by noted architects and architectural historians cover a range of topics from broad-based critical commentaries to discussions of individual architects and buildings. Among the latter are the architects Enrique del Moral, Juan O'Gorman, Carlos Obregón Santacilia, Juan Segura, Mario Pani, and the campus and stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City. Relatively little has been published in English regarding this era in Mexican architecture. Thus, Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico will play a groundbreaking role in making the underlying assumptions, ideological and political constructs, and specific architect's agendas known to a wide audience in the humanities. Likewise, it should inspire greater appreciation for this undervalued body of works as an important contribution to the modern movement.
Arquitectura Moderna Mexicana
Author | : Irving Evan Myers |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : UOM:39015014062981 |
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Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico
Author | : Edward R. Burian |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 029270853X |
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Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contemporary architectural culture and as a reaction to neoconservative postmodernism. This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of the notion of modernity in Mexican architecture and its influence on a generation of Mexican architects whose works spanned the 1920s through the 1960s. Nine essays by noted architects and architectural historians cover a range of topics from broad-based critical commentaries to discussions of individual architects and buildings. Among the latter are the architects Enrique del Moral, Juan O'Gorman, Carlos Obregón Santacilia, Juan Segura, Mario Pani, and the campus and stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City. Relatively little has been published in English regarding this era in Mexican architecture. Thus, Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico will play a groundbreaking role in making the underlying assumptions, ideological and political constructs, and specific architect's agendas known to a wide audience in the humanities. Likewise, it should inspire greater appreciation for this undervalued body of works as an important contribution to the modern movement.
Modern Architecture in Latin America
Author | : Luis E. Carranza,Fernando Luiz Lara |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2015-01-05 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780292762978 |
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Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that represent the complex processes of political, economic, and cultural modernization in the twentieth century. The number and types of projects varied greatly from country to country, but, as a whole, the region produced a significant body of architecture that has never before been presented in a single volume in any language. Modern Architecture in Latin America is the first comprehensive history of this important production. Designed as a survey and focused on key examples/paradigms arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this volume covers a myriad of countries; historical, social, and political conditions; and projects/developments that range from small houses to urban plans to architectural movements. The book is structured so that it can be read in a variety of ways—as a historically developed narrative of modern architecture in Latin America, as a country-specific chronology, or as a treatment of traditions centered on issues of art, technology, or utopia. This structure allows readers to see the development of multiple and parallel branches/historical strands of architecture and, at times, their interconnections across countries. The authors provide a critical evaluation of the movements presented in relationship to their overall goals and architectural transformations.
Modern Architecture Mexico
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Architects |
ISBN | : UOM:39015037757484 |
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Contemporary Mexican Architecture
Author | : Sandy Baum |
Publsiher | : Schiffer Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0764346024 |
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"This book showcases 26 Mexican architects' contemporary design in a wide variety of interior and exterior spaces"--Preface.