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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807485603321

Autore

O'Rourke Kathryn E.

Titolo

Modern architecture in Mexico City : history, representation, and the shaping of a capital / / Kathryn E. O'Rourke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-8229-8162-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (423 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Culture, politics, and the built environment

Classificazione

ARC005070HIS025000

Disciplina

060

Soggetti

Architecture

Mexico City (Mexico) Buildings, structures, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--