Modern architecture in Mexico City: history, representation, and the shaping of a capital

"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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Main Author: O'Rourke, Kathryn E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press 2024
Series:Culture, politics, and the built environment
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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:432 pages illustrations 26 cm
ISBN:9780822966999

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