La otra vivienda colectiva moderna en México
Subtitle: los edificios de apartamentos de Boris Albin en la Ciudad de México, 1950-1980
By: Alejandro Leal Menegus
Contributors: Albin, Boris, 1923-
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Arquitectura
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Ciudad de México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9786073025263
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Architecture; History; Modern Architecture; Designs and plans; Apartment houses; Buildings, structures; Buildings
Other titles: Edificios de apartamentos de Boris Albin en la Ciudad de México, 1950-1980
Description: "In this book, the apartment buildings designed and built by the engineer graduated from the National School of Engineering Boris Albin (Russia 1923, arrived in Mexico 1935), between 1950 and 1980 in Mexico City, highlight an alternative way of life, based on a community scheme and density promoted by private initiative.This work sheds light on this "other" collective housing, and its purpose is to show that these buildings and their departments represent an outstanding, dignified work and one of the clearest examples of the transformations that the society in Mexico in the mid-twentieth century." (HKB Translation)--Verso Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-407).
Table of contents: title: Presentación / Marcos Mazari Hiriart; title: Prólogo; title: Preámbulo; title: Introducción; title: PARTE 1. Origen, comunidad y ciudad; title: Capítulo I. Exilio; title: Capítulo II. Ciudad heterogénea; title: PARTE II. La otra vivienda colectiva; title: Capítulo III. Vivienda colectiva o inicitiva privada; title: Capítulo IV. Arquitectura veraz; title: Capítulo V. La evolución de un modelo; title: Consideraciones finales; title: Anexos.