Architecture in Mexico, 1900-2010 : the construction of modernity works, design, art, and thought / Fernanda Canales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Canales, Fernanda, author.

Contributor:

Museo Antiguo Palacio de Iturbide (Mexico City, Mexico)

Fomento Cultural Banamex.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Mexico--Mexico City--20th century--History.

Architecture.

Architecture--Mexico--Mexico City--21st century--History.

History.

Mexico City (Mexico)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Mexico City (Mexico).

Buildings.

Mexico--Mexico City.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (597 pages, 46 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

México D.F. : Grupo Financiero Banamex, 2013.

Contents:

Volume I. Forewords / Manuel Medina Mora ; Alfredo Harp Helú and Roberto Hernández Ramírez

Preamble / Cándida Fernández de Calderón

Proem "The obsidian knife" / Luis Fernández-Galiano

Prologue

Introduction

The construction of modernity in Mexico

I. Timeline: events and architecture

II. Timeline: Works, art, design and thought

Designing an identity

III. Diagram: events and architecture

Architecture

IV. Timeline: works

V. Timeline: works by foreigners

Creators

VI. Timeline: creators

VII. Timeline: filiations

VIII. Diagram: architecture and creators.

Volume II. Design and the city

IX. Timeline: design : furniture and objects

X. Timeline: interior design

XI. Timeline: works under construction

XII. Timeline: Mexico City

XIII. Timeline: architecture and advertising

Art

XIV. Timeline: processes: drawings and models

XV. Timeline: utopias

XVI. Timeline: art

Thought

XVII. Timeline: Mexican publications

XVIII. Timeline: foreign publications

XIX. Timeline: monographs

XX. Timeline: books on Mexico City

XXI. Timeline: magazines

XXII. Timeline: theories and essays

Twenty-first-century architecture

XXIII. Timeline: twenty-first-century works

XXIV. Timeline: twenty-first-century design

XXV. Timeline: twenty-first-century publications.

Notes:

Issued in box.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Arquitectura en México 1900-2010: La Construcción de la Modernidad: Obras, Diseño, Arte y Pensamiento [Architecture in Mexico 19002010: The Construction of Modernity: Works, Design, Art, and Thought]," held December 2013 to June 2014 at the Museo Antiguo Palacio de Iturbide in Mexico City.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-581) and index.

ISBN:

9786077612735

6077612731

9786077612742

607761274X

9786077612759

6077612758

OCLC:

883399440