{"product_id":"architecture-as-revolution-luis-e-carranza-9780292721951","title":"Architecture as Revolution: Episodes in the History of Modern Mexico","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe period following the Mexican Revolution was characterized by unprecedented artistic experimentation. Seeking to express the revolution's heterogeneous social and political aims, which were in a continuous state of redefinition, architects, artists, writers, and intellectuals created distinctive, sometimes idiosyncratic theories and works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuis E. Carranza examines the interdependence of modern architecture in Mexico and the pressing sociopolitical and ideological issues of this period, as well as the interchanges between post-revolutionary architects and the literary, philosophical, and artistic avant-gardes. Organizing his book around chronological case studies that show how architectural theory and production reflected various understandings of the revolution's significance, Carranza focuses on architecture and its relationship to the philosophical and pedagogic requirements of the muralist movement, the development of the avant-garde in Mexico and its notions of the Mexican city, the use of pre-Hispanic architectural forms to address indigenous peoples, the development of a socially oriented architectural functionalism, and the monumentalization of the revolution itself. In addition, the book also covers important architects and artists who have been marginally discussed within architectural and art historiography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichly illustrated, \u003ci\u003eArchitecture as Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the first books in English to present a social and cultural history of early twentieth-century Mexican architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luis E. Carranza\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292721951\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292721951\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.21h x 8.53w x 0.92d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2011","brand":"Luis E. Carranza","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086465151231,"sku":"9780292721951","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_965516a5-995c-4451-a222-897af5074f75.jpg?v=1769094822","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/architecture-as-revolution-luis-e-carranza-9780292721951","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}