Modern Architecture in Mexico City : History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital /

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"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 intelle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Rourke, Kathryn E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Buildings.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture and society.
ARCHITECTURE > General.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Architecture > 20e siecle.
Architecture et societe > Mexique > Mexico > 20e siecle.
Architecture, Modern > 20th century.
Architecture and society > Mexico > Mexico City > 20th century.
Mexico > Mexico City.
Mexico City (Mexico) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (422 pages).
ISBN:9780822981626

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