TY - BOOK AU - Carranza,Luis E. TI - Architecture as revolution: episodes in the history of modern Mexico. SN - 9780292721951 AV - NA2543.S6 C35 2010 U1 - 720.1/0309720904 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Austin : PB - University of Texas Press, KW - Architecture and society KW - Mexico KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Modernism (Aesthetics) KW - Architecture KW - Revolution, 1910-1920 KW - Monuments N1 - 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 -- N2 - 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 ER -