Modern Architecture in Mexico City: History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital - Paperback

by Kathryn E. O'Rourke (Author)

Mexico 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.

Author Biography

Kathryn E. O'Rourke is associate professor of art history at Trinity University in San Antonio.