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Modern Architecture in Mexico City - Kathryn E O'Rourke

Modern Architecture in Mexico City

History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital
Buch | Hardcover
432 Seiten
2017
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-4462-1 (ISBN)
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Kathryn E. O'Rourke offers a new interpretation of the development of modern architecture in the Mexican capital, showing close links between design, evolving understandings of national architectural history, folk art, and social reform.
Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories of Mexican colonial architecture, which suggested that Mexico possessed a distinctive architecture and culture, beginning in the 1920s a new generation of architects created profoundly visual modern buildings intended to convey Mexico's unique cultural character. By midcentury these architects and their students had rewritten the country's architectural history and transformed the capital into a metropolis where new buildings that evoked pre-conquest, colonial, and International Style architecture coexisted.

Through an exploration of schools, a university campus, a government ministry, a workers' park, and houses for Diego Rivera and Luis Barragan, Kathryn O'Rourke offers a new interpretation of modern architecture in the Mexican capital, showing close links between design, evolving understandings of national architectural history, folk art, and social reform. This book demonstrates why creating a distinctively Mexican architecture captivated architects whose work was formally dissimilar, and how that concern became central to the profession.

Kathryn E. O’Rourke is associate professor of art history at Trinity University in San Antonio.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Culture Politics & the Built Environment
Verlagsort Pittsburgh PA
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 230 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 0-8229-4462-6 / 0822944626
ISBN-13 978-0-8229-4462-1 / 9780822944621
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