The Making Of Mexican Modernist Architecture

Author : Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000858778

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The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture by Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano Pdf

This book presents the making of Mexican Modernist architecture through five power structures – academic, social status, economic/political, gender, and postcolonial – and by interviews and analysis of 13 key Mexican architects. These include Luis Barragán, José Villagrán García, Juan O’Gorman, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Agustín Hernández, Abraham Zabludovsky, Carlos Mijares, Ricardo Legorreta, Juan José Díaz Infante, Enrique Norten, Alberto Kalach, Javier Sordo Madaleno and Clara de Buen. Although the five power structures framed what was built, the testimony of these Mexican architects helps us to recognize and discover subtleties and nuances. Their views thereby shed light on what contributed to making Mexican Modernist architecture so distinctive globally. Even if these architects were not always aware of the power structures, their projects nonetheless supported discrimination, marginalization and subjugation. In that sense the book also reveals the extent to which these power structures are still present today. The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture’s uniqueness lies in uncovering the remarkable buildings that arose amid the five power structures while at the same time questioning their validity. It also voices the urgent need today for a new kind of architecture outside these boundaries. The book is essential reading for anyone studying Mexican and Latin American architecture.

Author : Edward R. Burian
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292791664

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Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico by Edward R. Burian Pdf

Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contemporary architectural culture and as a reaction to neoconservative postmodernism. 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 the latter are the architects Enrique del Moral, Juan O'Gorman, Carlos Obregón Santacilia, Juan Segura, Mario Pani, and the campus and stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City. Relatively little has been published in English regarding this era in Mexican architecture. Thus, Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico will play a groundbreaking role in making the underlying assumptions, ideological and political constructs, and specific architect's agendas known to a wide audience in the humanities. Likewise, it should inspire greater appreciation for this undervalued body of works as an important contribution to the modern movement.

Author : Kathryn E. O'Rourke
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780822981626

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Modern Architecture in Mexico City by Kathryn E. O'Rourke Pdf

Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories of Mexican colonial architecture, which suggested that Mexico possessed a distinctive architecture and culture, beginning in the 1920s a new generation of architects created profoundly visual modern buildings intended to convey Mexico’s unique cultural character. By midcentury these architects and their students had rewritten the country’s architectural history and transformed the capital into a metropolis where new buildings that evoked pre-conquest, colonial, and International Style architecture coexisted. Through an exploration of schools, a university campus, a government ministry, a workers’ park, and houses for Diego Rivera and Luis Barragán, Kathryn O’Rourke offers a new interpretation of modern architecture in the Mexican capital, showing close links between design, evolving understandings of national architectural history, folk art, and social reform. This book demonstrates why creating a distinctively Mexican architecture captivated architects whose work was formally dissimilar, and how that concern became central to the profession.

Author : Irving Evan Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015014062981

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Arquitectura Moderna Mexicana by Irving Evan Myers Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:30000010128274

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Circular by Anonim Pdf

Author : Khristaan Villela,Ellen Bradbury,Logan Wagner
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architect-designed houses
ISBN : UCSD:31822031977028

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Contemporary Mexican Design and Architecture by Khristaan Villela,Ellen Bradbury,Logan Wagner Pdf

Representative homes built by 12 architects working in Mexico are profiled with text and numerous color photographs. Modernism as well as the natural and human environment of Mexico influences all the architects profiled. Categorized under the headings colorists, personal visions, and functionalists, the profilees include Jorge Robles, Agustin, Hernandez, Abraham Zambludovksy. Isaac Broid, Carlos Santos Maldonado, and J.B. Johnson. Also included is an introductory chapter that discusses the history of Mexican design from the Aztecs to the Modernists. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Luis E. Carranza
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292721951

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Architecture as Revolution by Luis E. Carranza Pdf

The period following the Mexican Revolution was characterized by unprecedented artistic experimentation. Seeking to express the revolution's heterogeneous social and political aims, which were in a continuous state of redefinition, architects, artists, writers, and intellectuals created distinctive, sometimes idiosyncratic theories and works. Luis E. Carranza examines the interdependence of modern architecture in Mexico and the pressing sociopolitical and ideological issues of this period, as well as the interchanges between post-revolutionary architects and the literary, philosophical, and artistic avant-gardes. Organizing his book around chronological case studies that show how architectural theory and production reflected various understandings of the revolution's significance, Carranza focuses on architecture and its relationship to the philosophical and pedagogic requirements of the muralist movement, the development of the avant-garde in Mexico and its notions of the Mexican city, the use of pre-Hispanic architectural forms to address indigenous peoples, the development of a socially oriented architectural functionalism, and the monumentalization of the revolution itself. In addition, the book also covers important architects and artists who have been marginally discussed within architectural and art historiography. Richly illustrated, Architecture as Revolution is one of the first books in English to present a social and cultural history of early twentieth-century Mexican architecture.

Author : Luis E. Carranza,Fernando Luiz Lara
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292762978

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Modern Architecture in Latin America by Luis E. Carranza,Fernando Luiz Lara Pdf

Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that represent the complex processes of political, economic, and cultural modernization in the twentieth century. The number and types of projects varied greatly from country to country, but, as a whole, the region produced a significant body of architecture that has never before been presented in a single volume in any language. Modern Architecture in Latin America is the first comprehensive history of this important production. Designed as a survey and focused on key examples/paradigms arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this volume covers a myriad of countries; historical, social, and political conditions; and projects/developments that range from small houses to urban plans to architectural movements. The book is structured so that it can be read in a variety of ways—as a historically developed narrative of modern architecture in Latin America, as a country-specific chronology, or as a treatment of traditions centered on issues of art, technology, or utopia. This structure allows readers to see the development of multiple and parallel branches/historical strands of architecture and, at times, their interconnections across countries. The authors provide a critical evaluation of the movements presented in relationship to their overall goals and architectural transformations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Architects
ISBN : UOM:39015037757484

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Modern Architecture, Mexico by Anonim Pdf

Author : John V. Mutlow
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1876907843

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The New Architecture of Mexico by John V. Mutlow Pdf

This book explores the modern architecture the modern architecture of Mexico, with an emphasis from the early 1980s to the present day. It is particularly appropriate now, given a renewed interest in the recent modern architecture of Mexico, and as the w

Author : Antonio Riggen Martínez,Luis Barragán
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173004246073

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Luis Barragán by Antonio Riggen Martínez,Luis Barragán Pdf

Many books cover the sublime forms and colors of Luis Barragan's architecture - its visual aspect - yet are silent on his education and development as an architect, his methods and his theories. Luis Barragan: Mexico's Modern Master, 1902-1988 is the first in-depth study of the architect and his work. It also includes a great number of exquisite visual representations, thereby presenting a complete treatment of Barragan that enhances an understanding of the equally poetic and architectonic nature of his work and places him within the historical and political context of Mexico. The author portrays the myriad influence on the young Barragan: early trips to the United States and Europe, where he became acquainted with some of his most important and lasting models, Le Corbusier, Frederick Kiesler, Jose Clemente Orozco, and above all, Ferdinand Bac; the strong sense of identity of the tapatios, natives of his home city of Guadalajara; and his circle of contemporaries, all in the arts, all committed to discussing and publicizing new social and artistic ideas. Barragan's early works synthesized many of these elements, and a quality of "Mediterraneanism" was their strongest characteristic. This monograph also features the most extensive documentation available on Barragan. In addition to photographs and architectural drawings of his best-known projects, it features a myriad of previously unpublished photographs, an extensive illustrated list of over sixty built and unbuilt works, and a complete register of projects.

Author : I. E. Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1123460039

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Mexico's Modern Architecture by I. E. Myers Pdf

Author : Luis Barragán
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173016241339

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Barragan - The Complete Works by Luis Barragán Pdf

Mexican architect Luis Barragan (1902-88) was one of the twentieth centurys most creative designers and one of its best-known architects. Self-taught, he achieved international renown for his remarkable personal artistic vision. Using vegetation, water, primary geometric forms, and vivid colors, Barragan created a poetic and painterly yet elegantly simple architectural style that transformed the Mexican building tradition into an abstract architectural language. This revised edition of our best-selling monograph the first comprehensive compilation of Barragans work (102 buildings and 12 additional projects) contains new photographs and an updated bibliography. Its intelligent analyses and superb illustrations demonstrate the complexity and scope of this genius, as both an architect and a landscape designer. Barragan The Complete Works collects over 300 illustrations including Barragans drawings; photographs of his work; re-drawn plans, elevations, and scale models of important projects; texts by Alvaro Siza, Antonio Toca, and J. M. Buendia, as well as an essay by Barragan himself; and an unabridged transcription of his Pritzker Prize acceptance speech. this book is the essential compendium on the work of this great master architect.

Author : Luis E. Carranza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000510881

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Radical Functionalism by Luis E. Carranza Pdf

Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico provides a complex and nuanced understanding of the functionalist architecture developed in Mexico during the 1930s. It carefully re-reads the central texts and projects of its main advocates to show how their theories responded to the socially and culturally charged Mexican context. These, such as architects Juan Legarreta, Juan O’Gorman, the Union of Socialist Architects, and Manuel Amábilis, were part of broader explorations to develop a modern, national architecture intended to address the needs of the Mexican working classes. Through their refunctioning of functionalism, these radical thinkers showed how architecture could stand at the precipice of Mexico's impending modernization and respond to its impending changes. The book examines their engagement and negotiation with foreign influences, issues of gender and class, and the separation between art and architecture. Functionalist practices are presented as contradictory and experimental, as challenging the role of architecture in the transformation of society, and as intimately linked to art and local culture in the development of new forms of architecture for Mexico, including the "vernacularization" of functionalism itself. Uniquely including translations of two manifesto-like texts by O’Gorman expressing the polemical nature of their investigations, Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico will be a useful reference for scholars, researchers and students interested in the history of architectural movements.

Author : Max L. Cetto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Architecture
ISBN : LCCN:61007600

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Modern Architecture in Mexico by Max L. Cetto Pdf