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A richly illustrated social and cultural history of post-revolutionary Mexican architecture.

Table of Contents
  • Foreword by Jorge Francisco Liernur
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Mexico, Modernity, and Architecture after the Revolution
  • 1. If Walls Could Talk: José Vasconcelos' Raza Cósmica and the Building for the Secretaría de Educación Pública
  • 2. La Ciudad Falsificada: The Avant-Garde and the Literary City
  • 3. Colonizing the Colonizer: The Mexican Pavilion at the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition
  • 4. Against a New Architecture: Juan O'Gorman and the Disillusionment of Modernism
  • 5. Monumentalizing the Revolution
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Illustration credits
  • Index

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    A Hardback by Luis E. Carranza, Jorge Francisco Liernur

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      Publisher: MU - University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 7/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780292721951, 978-0292721951
      ISBN10: 0292721951

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A richly illustrated social and cultural history of post-revolutionary Mexican architecture.

      Table of Contents
      • Foreword by Jorge Francisco Liernur
      • Acknowledgements
      • Introduction: Mexico, Modernity, and Architecture after the Revolution
      • 1. If Walls Could Talk: José Vasconcelos' Raza Cósmica and the Building for the Secretaría de Educación Pública
      • 2. La Ciudad Falsificada: The Avant-Garde and the Literary City
      • 3. Colonizing the Colonizer: The Mexican Pavilion at the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition
      • 4. Against a New Architecture: Juan O'Gorman and the Disillusionment of Modernism
      • 5. Monumentalizing the Revolution
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Illustration credits
      • Index

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