Architecture as revolution
Subtitle: episodes in the history of modern Mexico
By: by Luis E. Carranza ; foreword by Jorge Francisco Liernur.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Roger Fullington series in architecture
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780292721951
Subjects: Architecture and society -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century; Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century; Architecture -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century; Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Monuments
Other titles: Episodes in the history of modern Mexico
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Mexico, modernity, and architecture after the revolution; title: If walls could talk : Jose Vasconcelos' Raza cósmica and the building for the Secretaría de Educación Pública; title: La Ciudad falsificada : the avant-garde and the literary city; title: Colonizing the colonizer : the Mexican Pavilion at the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition; title: Against a new architecture : Juan O'Gorman and the disillusionment of modernism; title: Monumentalizing the revolution.