Edward R. Burian nos muestra una serie de trabajos, conceptos y obras de sorprendente calidad y modernidad cuyo estudio implica, sin lugar a dudas, una forma madura y objetiva de analizar la arquitectura poco comun. Resulta dificil precisar la idea de modernidad, especialmente en un pais como Mexico, donde conviven conceptos aparentemente opuestos: raices e innovacion, antiguedad y contemporaneidad, dulzura y fuerza, romanticismo y agresividad. Un prologo de Ricardo Legorreta y nueve ensayos a cargo de conocidos arquitectos e historiadores de la arquitectura, abarcan una amplia serie de temas que van desde el analisis generico hasta el mas pormenorizado, sobre arquitectos como Enrique del Moral, Juan O'Gorman, Carlos Obregon Santacilia, Juan Segura, Mario Pani, o los edificios del campus y el estadio de la Ciudad Universitaria de Mexico D.F.

Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contemporary architectural culture and as a reaction to neoconservative postmodernism. This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of the notion of modernity in Mexican architecture and its influence on a generation of Mexican architects whose works spanned the 1920s through the 1960s. Nine essays by noted architects and architectural historians cover a range of topics from broad-based critical commentaries to discussions of individual architects and buildings. Among the latter are the architects Enrique del Moral, Juan O'Gorman, Carlos Obregón Santacilia, Juan Segura, Mario Pani, and the campus and stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City. Relatively little has been published in English regarding this era in Mexican architecture. Thus, Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico will play a groundbreaking role in making the underlying assumptions, ideological and political constructs, and specific architect's agendas known to a wide audience in the humanities. Likewise, it should inspire greater appreciation for this undervalued body of works as an important contribution to the modern movement.

Anthology of fundamental texts on the consolidation of modern architecture in Mexico, spanning 40 years (1922-1954).

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