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The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano

The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture By Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano

The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture by Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano

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This book presents the making of Mexican modernist architecture mainly through five power structures : academic, social status, economic/political, gender, and post-colonial, and through interviews with thirteen key Mexican architects.

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The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture by Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano

  • Introduces for the first time, a range of theories and methods from critical theory/cultural studies to analyse and evaluate Mexican twentieth-century architecture. These theories and methods have been used successfully to re-assess modernist architecture elsewhere, but have never before been applied to Mexican architecture.
  • Compiles the lives and works of 13 key Mexican Modernist architects across four generations: Jose Villagran Garcia, Luis Barragan and Juan O'Gorman from the first generation; Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, Agustin Hernandez and Abraham Zabludovsky from the second; Carlos Mijares, Ricardo Legorreta and Juan Jose Diaz Infante from the third; and finally, Enrique Norten, Clara de Buen, Alberto Kalach and Javier Sordo Madaleno from the fourth generation, for the first time together in one book, illustrated with beautiful photographs of their most important work.
  • Beautifully illustrated in full colour with over 170 plans, sections, elevations and photographs.

About Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano

Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano was born in Monterrey, Mexico. She graduated from Tecnologico de Monterrey with a degree in Architecture, and has a master's degree in Landscape Architecture from Texas A&M University and a master's degree in Urban Design from Oxford Brookes University in England, where she later obtained her PhD in Architecture. She is Emeritus Professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico and her areas of expertise are theory, history and cultural studies in architecture, as well as sustainable architecture and urban design. She has numerous publications in the fields of architecture, both in Spanish and in English. She was the first female president of the National Academy of Architecture, Chapter Monterrey, and was granted the status of Academic Emeritus, the highest distinction awarded by the National Academy of Architecture of the Mexican Architects Society.

Table of Contents

1. Mexican Architecture as an Academic Discipline. Academic Discourse. Architectural Schools. Architectural Practice. The Role of Architectural Guilds and Associations. Architecture as a System of Meaning. Written Architecture. Architectural Classification Systems. Architectural Treatises. Photographed Architecture. Architects and their Authorship. The First Generation (1900-14). The Second Generation (1915-29). The Third Generation (1930-44). The Fourth Generation (1945-60). 2. Mexican Architecture and Economic and Political Power. Architecture and Power. Main Power Groups in Mexico. Twentieth-Century Mexican Economic Models. Influence of Economic Models on Twentieth-Century Mexican Architecture. Power in Twentieth-Century Architectural Modernism in Mexico. Hospitals. Museums. Hotels. Transportation Buildings. Banks. State Buildings. Private and Public Office Buildings. Public and Private Schools. Religious Architecture. 3. Mexican Architecture as Economic Status in a System of Consumption. Mexican Architecture and Consumption. Mexican Architecture as a Sign within the Consumption Cycle. The Image of Mexican Architects. Mexican Architects and their Social Status. Mexican Architects and their Social Image. Spatial and Social Marginalization in Mexico City. 4. Mexican Architecture and Gender. Mexican Architecture as a Gendered Discipline. Architecture an Artefact of Gender Differentiation. Womens Place in Mexican Architecture. Mens Place in Mexican Architecture. 5. Mexican Architecture and Postcolonialism. Mexico's Postcolonial Identity. Mimicry and Dissimulation. Hybridity and Simulation. Emotional Architecture or Magical Realism. 6. Epilogue

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NGR9781032332741
9781032332741
1032332743
The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture by Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano
Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2023-05-03
304
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