Main entry:

O'Rourke, Kathryn E., author.

Title & Author:

Modern architecture in Mexico City : history, representation, and the shaping of a capital / Kathryn E. O'Rourke.

Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]

Description:

xi, 410 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Culture, politics, and the built environment

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-392) and index.
Part I. Colonial concepts for modern mestizos -- History, Photography, and the Invention of Mexican Architecture -- Representation and Reform at the Ministry of Health -- Fit and Trim: Pictorial Histories at the Venustiano Carranza Recreation and Athletic Center for Workers -- Part II. Images, absence, and otherness -- Composition and Conflict: Juan O'Gorman as Painter-Architect -- Landscape and Subjectivity at the Ciudad Universitaria -- Alone in History: Luis Barragan's "Mexican" House.

Summary:

"Kathryn E. O'Rourke offers a new interpretation of the development of modern architecture in the Mexican capital in the first half of the twentieth century. Through an exploration of private houses, schools, a government ministry, and a workers' park, O'Rourke traces the intellectual history of Mexican modernism, showing close links between design, evolving understandings of national architectural history, folk art, and social reform"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780822944621 (hardback)
0822944626 (hardback)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture and society Mexico Mexico City 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture et société Mexique Mexico 20e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE History Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
HISTORY Latin America Mexico.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Modern.
Buildings.
Mexico City (Mexico) Buildings, structures, etc.
Mexico Mexico City.

Added entries:

Culture, politics, and the built environment.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296193
Call No.: BIB 242603
Status: Available