El sueño inconcluso de Émile Bénard y su Palacio Legislativo, hoy Monumento a la Revolución / Javier Pérez Siller, Martha Bernand Calva.

Main entry:

Pérez Siller, Javier.

Title & Author:

El sueño inconcluso de Émile Bénard y su Palacio Legislativo, hoy Monumento a la Revolución / Javier Pérez Siller, Martha Bernand Calva.

Edition:

1. ed.

Publication:

México, D.F. : Artes de México ; [Mexico] : Seguros Argos, asociados con Aegon, 2009.

Description:

199 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.

Series:

Artes de la Mirada

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-199).
Introducción -- Formación de un artista académico -- Un Gran Palacio -- El Santuario de las Leyes.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Hace cien años, se comenzó a construir en la Cuidad de México un edificio monumental que servirá como palacio del poder legislativo federal. El autor del proyecto fue el arquitecto y pintor Émile Bérnard, que nunca vio su gran sueño materializado. Las páginas nos permiten conocer la grandez que hubiera tenido aquel edificio y las razones por las cuales nunca se terminó de construir, y nos invitan a mirar en el actual monumento a la revolución los vestigos de aquel sueño centenario.
One hundred years ago (1910) in Mexico City, the construction of a monumental building had just started. This neo-classic building was to be the national chambers of the Senate and Deputies in Mexico City during President Porfirio Diaz regime. The creator of the project was French architect and painter Émile Bénard of the École des Beaux-Arts of Paris, who never saw his design finished. This handsome edition remembers the life and artistic-architectural legacy of Bénard, highlighting the designs of what could have been the grandiose centennial dream and recalls the historic and political reasons of the destruction of the incomplete structure in the 1930's. Mexican architect Carlos Obregón Santacilia saved the cupola and modified it into what is now the Monument to the Revolution, an art deco structure that became the burial place of many historic Revolution heroes: Francisco I. Madero, Venustiano Carranza, Plutarco Elías Calles, Lázaro Cárdenas, Francisco "Pancho" Villa and other fellow revolutionaries. Beautifully illustrated with many color reproductions of Bénard's watercolors and architectural designs.

ISBN:

9786074610444
6074610444

Subject:

Bénard, Émile, 1844-1929 Criticism and interpretation.
Bénard, Émile, 1844-1929.
Obregón Santacilia, Carlos, 1896-1961
Capitols Design.
Unbuilt architectural projects Mexico.
Projets d'architecture non réalisés Mexique.
Buildings.
Civilization French influences.
Unbuilt architectural projects.
Monumento a la Revolución (Mexico City, Mexico)
Mexico City (Mexico) Buildings, structures, etc.
Mexico Civilization French influences.
México Civilización.
Mexico.
Mexico Mexico City.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Bénard Calva, Martha.
Artes de la Mirada.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 270070
Call No.: BIB 202713
Status: Available

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