Main entry:

Canales, Fernanda, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture in Mexico, 1900-2010 : the construction of modernity : works, design, art, and thought / Fernanda Canales ; English translation, Debra Nagao, Fionn Petch, Anne Hill de Mayagoitia.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

México, D.F. : Fomento Cultural Banamex, 2013.

Description:

2 volumes (597 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Arquitectura en México 1900-2010: La Construcción de la Modernidad: Obras, Diseño, Arte y Pensamiento," held at the Palacio de Iturbide, Mexico City, Dec. 2013-June 2014.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-581) and index.
Volume 1: Forewords -- Preamble -- Poem -- Prologue -- Introduction -- The construction of modernity in Mexico -- Designing an identity -- architecture -- Creators.
Design and the city -- Art -- Thought -- Twenty-first-century architecture -- Bibliography -- Index of names.

Summary:

From the iconic modernism of Luis Barragán to the brightly colored post modern forms of Ricardo Legoretta, this important historical document deals with the plurality of architectural styles and voices in Mexico during the 20th and early 21st centuries. Referencing French philosopher Michel Foucault s idea of effective history in which knowledge does not encompass absolute truths delivered in traditional historical texts but rather fragments, shortening its vision to the things nearest it, Architecture in Mexico offers a new reading of the diverse interests at stake in historical Mexican architecture its production and its subsequent reception. The volume pursues comprehension beyond built forms and closer to the ideas (and ideologies) that gave rise to them -- Provided by the publisher.

ISBN:

9786077612797 (complete work)
6077612790 (complete work)
9786077612803 (v. 1)
6077612804 (v. 1)
9786077612810 (v. 2)
6077612812 (v. 2)

Subject:

Architecture Mexico History 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture Mexico History 21st century Exhibitions.
Architecture Mexique Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture Mexique Histoire 21e siècle Expositions.
Architecture.
Buildings.
Mexico Buildings, structures, etc. Exhibitions.
Mexico.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.

Added entries:

Canales, Fernanda. Arquitectura en México, 1900-2010.
Palacio de Iturbide, host instituton.
Fomento Cultural Banamex, issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291502
Call No.: BIB 235189
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 291715
Call No.: BIB 235189
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available