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
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I COLONIAL CONCEPTS FOR MODERN MESTIZOS
  • ch. One History, Photography, and the Invention of Mexican Architecture
  • ch. Two Representation and Reform at the Ministry of Health
  • ch. Three Fit and Trim: Pictorial Histories at the Venustiano Carranza Recreation and Athletic Center for Workers
  • pt. II IMAGES, ABSENCE, AND OTHERNESS
  • ch. Four Composition and Conflict: Juan O'Gorman as Painter-Architect
  • ch. Five Landscape and Subjectivity at the Ciudad Universitaria
  • ch. Six Alone in History: Luis Barragan's "Mexican" House.

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