El art déco en la Ciudad de México
Subtitle: retrospectiva de un movimiento arquitectónico
By: texto: Carolina Magaña Fajardo ; fotografías: Paulina Lavista, Carolina Magaña Fajardo
Contributors: Lavista, Paulina, 1945- photographer
Edition: Primera edición.
Series: Arquitectura y urbanismo; Arquitectura y urbanismo
Publisher: Siglo Veintiuno Editores; INBAL, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura; Anáhuac México
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Ciudad de México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9786070310324; 9786076056318; 9786078566419
Subjects: Art deco (Architecture); Modern Architecture; Buildings, structures; Buildings
Description: This book is a careful historiographical review of PhD Carolina Magaña, researcher at the Faculty of Design of the Universidad Anáhuac and resumes for analysis the instruments of historical and historiographic knowledge studied by Marina Waisman, focused on architecture in Latin America, based on which art deco for Mexico City is shown to be the first architectural movement of the 20th century. Deco architecture is considered to be the pinnacle of Mexican nationalist architectural design, as it was the only one among the four contemporary currents - neocolonial, Californian colonial, modern movement and neo-indigenism - in which various types of buildings were built, with formal elements such as single-family housing, multifamily buildings, public and private buildings, parks, churches, monuments and urban elements. Mainly cinemas and mixed-use buildings, unique in their time, stand out. It was also part of a typological process within the main neighborhoods of Mexico City from 1925 to 1940.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: El movimiento art déco en el mundo; title: Periodificación histórica : vida en México (1925-1940); title: El art déco en México, tipo de edificaciones; title: Tres edificios representativos habitacionales : Picadilly, Ritz y Hamburgo; title: En busca del art déco en Ciudad de México; title: El art déco, arquitectura del pasado en el presente.