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

O'Rourke, Kathryn E.,

Modern architecture in Mexico City : history, representation, and the shaping of a capital / Kathryn E. O'Rourke. - Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource. - Culture, politics, and the built environment .

Includes bibliographies and index.

"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"--



9780822981626


Architecture and society--Mexico--Mexico City--20th century.
Architecture, Modern--20th century.


Electronic Books.

NA757 / .M634 2016