Armando Salas Portugal Photographs of the Architecture of Luis Barragán
Author: Luis Barragán
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 167
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Armando Salas Portugal Photographs of the Architecture of Luis Barragán
Author: Luis Barragán
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPictorial study of the work of the influential twentieth century Mexican architect
Gardens of El Pedregal
Author: Keith Eggener
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2001-06
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781568982670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe considered El Pedregal his most important project, and critics have described the houses and gardens there as a turning point in Mexican modern architecture.".
The Architecture of Luis Barragán
Author: Emilio Ambasz
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture
Author: Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-05-03
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1000858774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the making of Mexican Modernist architecture through five power structures – academic, social status, economic/political, gender, and postcolonial – and by interviews and analysis of 13 key Mexican architects. These include Luis Barragán, José Villagrán García, Juan O’Gorman, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Agustín Hernández, Abraham Zabludovsky, Carlos Mijares, Ricardo Legorreta, Juan José Díaz Infante, Enrique Norten, Alberto Kalach, Javier Sordo Madaleno and Clara de Buen. Although the five power structures framed what was built, the testimony of these Mexican architects helps us to recognize and discover subtleties and nuances. Their views thereby shed light on what contributed to making Mexican Modernist architecture so distinctive globally. Even if these architects were not always aware of the power structures, their projects nonetheless supported discrimination, marginalization and subjugation. In that sense the book also reveals the extent to which these power structures are still present today. The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture’s uniqueness lies in uncovering the remarkable buildings that arose amid the five power structures while at the same time questioning their validity. It also voices the urgent need today for a new kind of architecture outside these boundaries. The book is essential reading for anyone studying Mexican and Latin American architecture.
The Proposal
Author: Nikolaus Hirsch
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783956791888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith 'The Proposal' Magid attempts to bring together Barragán's professional and personal archives by probing the architect's official and private selves, and the interests of various individuals and governmental and corporate entities who have become the archives? guardians. Magid, with permission of the Barragán family, commissioned a small amount of Barragán's cremated remains to be transformed into a diamond. The stone, set in a gold ring, was offered to Zanco in exchange for the return of the professional archive to Mexico. Magid's artwork directly engages the intersections of the psychological and the judicial, national identity and repatriation, international property rights and copyright law, authorship and ownership, the human body and the body of work
Modern Architecture in Mexico City
Author: Kathryn E. O'Rourke
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2017-02-10
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 0822981629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories of Mexican colonial architecture, which suggested that Mexico possessed a distinctive architecture and culture, beginning in the 1920s a new generation of architects created profoundly visual modern buildings intended to convey Mexico's unique cultural character. By midcentury these architects and their students had rewritten the country's architectural history and transformed the capital into a metropolis where new buildings that evoked pre-conquest, colonial, and International Style architecture coexisted. Through an exploration of schools, a university campus, a government ministry, a workers' park, and houses for Diego Rivera and Luis Barragan, Kathryn O'Rourke offers a new interpretation of modern architecture in the Mexican capital, showing close links between design, evolving understandings of national architectural history, folk art, and social reform. This book demonstrates why creating a distinctively Mexican architecture captivated architects whose work was formally dissimilar, and how that concern became central to the profession.
Collage and Architecture
Author: Jennifer A.E. Shields
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-03
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1134681542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollage and Architecture is the first book to cover collage as a tool for design in architecture, making it a valuable resource for students and practitioners. Author Jennifer Shields uses the artworks and built projects of leading artists and architects, such as Le Corbusier, Daniel Libeskind, and Teddy Cruz to illustrate the diversity of collage techniques. The six case study projects from Mexico, Argentina, Sweden, Norway, the United States, and Spain give you a global perspective of architecture as collage. Collage is an important instrument for analysis and design, and Shields’s presentation of this versatile medium draws on decades of relevance in art and architecture, to be adapted and transformed in your own work.
Photography, Modern Architecture, and Design
Author: Vitra Design Museum
Publisher: EPFL Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9782940222070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the photographic collection that Alberto Sartoris donated to the Swiss federal government, this text throws light on a poorly understood aspect of 20th century architecture, namely the mechanisms behind the creation and diffusion of the 'image of modern architecture'.
Art of Latin America
Author: Marta Traba
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0940602733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarta Traba, one of Latin America's most controversial art critics, examines the works of over 1,000 artists from the first 80 years of the 20th century. This book is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in studying the evolution of Latin American art.
