Title: La otra vivienda colectiva moderna en México
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Architecture, History, Modern Architecture, Designs and plans, Apartment houses, Buildings, structures, Buildings
Places: Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico City (Mexico)
People: Boris Albin (1923-)
Time periods: 20th century