Traces of the Modern Movement in Mexico. Housing Units and the Europe- Latin America Transculturation
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Modern architecture in Mexico, multi-family units, urban centersAbstract
This article attempts to visualize modernity as a process of cultural exchange between Europe and Latin America, where the transnational import and export of ideas enriches the cultural environment of a country, a region, a city, which implies the recognition of an authentic and autonomous culture, and not a reproduction of prefigured stereotypes and images. Two iconic examples of urban and architectural modernization in Mexico are taken as case studies, and their European references are established in the 1950s and 1960s. One is the Presidente Alemán Housing Unit and the other is the Presidente López Mateos Urban Center in Nonoalco-Tlatelolco, both by architect Mario Pani. It starts from a descriptive analysis of the socio-political discourse of modernization of the time and the urban-architectural characteristics of both projects to understand modern architecture in Mexico.
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