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.