Radical functionalism : a social architecture for Mexico /

Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico provides a complex and nuanced understanding of the functionalist architecture developed in Mexico during the 1930s. It carefully rereads the central texts and projects of its main advocates to show how their theories responded to the socially...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Carranza, Luis E., 1968- (Author)
Other Authors:	O'Gorman, Juan, 1905-1982
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, [2022].
Series:	Routledge research in architecture.
Subjects:	Functionalism (Architecture) > Mexico. Architecture and society > Mexico > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Polemical Functionalism: Functional Art or Artistic Building
Building Revolution: Mexican Architecture in the First Part of the 20th Century
Functionalism and Social Progress
Alter(n)ative Functionalism
Radical Functionalism
Between Art and Technology
Place, History, and (Local) Culture
Representation and Reception
The City in the Functionalist Imagination
Epilogue: Organic Functionalism
Translations: Juan O'Gorman, "'Artistic' Art and Useful Art" (1934)
Juan O'Gorman, "Presentation for the Sociedad de Arquitectos Mexicanos" (1933).