Modern architecture in Mexico City
Subtitle: history, representation, and the shaping of a capital
By: Kathryn E. O'Rourke
Series: Culture, politics, and the built environment; Culture, politics, and the built environment
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780822944621
Subjects: Architecture and society; Buildings, structures; Modern Architecture
Description: "Kathryn E. O'Rourke offers a new interpretation of the development of modern architecture in the Mexican capital in the first half of the twentieth century. Through an exploration of private houses, schools, a government ministry, and a workers' park, O'Rourke traces the intellectual history of Mexican modernism, showing close links between design, evolving understandings of national architectural history, folk art, and social reform"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-392) and index.
Table of contents: title: History, Photography, and the Invention of Mexican Architecture; title: Representation and Reform at the Ministry of Health; title: Fit and Trim: Pictorial Histories at the Venustiano Carranza Recreation and Athletic Center for Workers; title: Composition and Conflict: Juan O'Gorman as Painter-Architect; title: Landscape and Subjectivity at the Ciudad Universitaria; title: Alone in History: Luis Barragan's "Mexican" House.