Architecture as revolution : episodes in the history of modern Mexico / by Luis E. Carranza ; foreword by Jorge Francisco Liernur.

Main entry:

Carranza, Luis E., 1968-

Title & Author:

Architecture as revolution : episodes in the history of modern Mexico / by Luis E. Carranza ; foreword by Jorge Francisco Liernur.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010.

Description:

xiv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Series:

Roger Fullington series in architecture

Notes:
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.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780292721951 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0292721951

Subject:

Architecture and society Mexico History 20th century.
Modernism (Aesthetics) Mexico History 20th century.
Architecture Mexico History 20th century.
Architecture et société Mexique Histoire 20e siècle.
Modernisme (Esthétique) Mexique Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Mexique Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Architecture and society.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Monuments.
Mexico History Revolution, 1910-1920 Monuments.
Mexico.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Roger Fullington series in architecture.

Episodes in the history of modern Mexico

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268930
Call No.: BIB 200856
Status: Available

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