Architecture as revolution : episodes in the history of modern Mexico. / txt
Episodes in the history of modern Mexico
by Luis E. Carranza ; foreword by Jorge Francisco Liernur.
- 1st ed.
- xiv, 241 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. book
- Roger Fullington series in architecture .
- Roger Fullington series in architecture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Mexico, modernity, and architecture after the revolution -- If walls could talk : José Vasconcelos' Raza cósmica and the building for the Secretaría de Educación Pública -- La Ciudad falsificada : the avant-garde and the literary city -- Colonizing the colonizer : the Mexican Pavilion at the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition -- Against a new architecture : Juan O'Gorman and the disillusionment of modernism -- Monumentalizing the revolution --
Seeking to express the heterogeneous social & political aims of the Mexican Revolution, which were in a state of continuous redefinition, architects, artists, writers & intellectuals created distinctive, sometimes idiosyncratic theories & works.
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Architecture and society--History--Mexico--20th century. Modernism (Aesthetics)--History--Mexico--20th century. Architecture--History--Mexico--20th century.