Title & Author:

Modernity and the architecture of Mexico / editor, Edward R. Burian.

Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1997.

Description:

xi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) and index.
Mexico, modernity, and architecture : an interview with Alberto Pérez-Gómez / Alberto Pérez-Gómez -- Politics and architectural language : post-revolutionary regimes in Mexico and their influence on Mexican public architecture, 1920-1952 / Antonio E. Méndez-Vigatá -- Modernity in Mexico : the case of the Ciudad Universitaria / Celia Ester Arredondo Zambrano -- Architecture and place : the stadium of the University City / Alberto Kalach -- "The general and the local" : Enrique del Moral's own house, Calle Francisco Ramírez 5, Mexico City, 1948 / William J.R. Curtis -- The architecture of Juan O'Gorman : dichotomy and drift / Edward R. Burian -- The architecture of Carlos Obregón Santacilia : a work for its time and context / Carlos G. Mijares Bracho -- Juan Segura : the origins of modern architecture in Mexico / Antonio Toca Fernández -- The architecture and urbanism of Mario Pani : creativity and compromise / Louise Noelle Merles.

Summary:

This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of the notion of modernity in Mexican architecture and its influence on a generation of Mexican architects whose works spanned the 1920s through the 1960s. Nine essays by noted architects and architectural historians cover a range of topics from broad-based critical commentaries to discussions of individual architects and buildings. Among these are the architects Enrique del Moral, Juan O'Gorman, Carlos Obregon Santacilia, Juan.
Segura, Mario Pani, and the campus and stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

029270853X (paper ; alk. paper)
9780292708532 (paper ; alk. paper)
0292708521 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780292708525 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Mexico History 20th century.
Architecture Mexique Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Architektur
Aufsatzsammlung
Geschichte 1920-1970.
Mexico.
Mexiko

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History.

Added entries:

Burian, Edward R. (Edward Rudolf), 1953-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 130489
Call No.: ID NA755.B87 1997; ID:97-B2157
Status: Available