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The Houses of Guadalajara : Ghosts of Modernity
The Houses of Guadalajara : Ghosts of Modernity
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ISBN No.: 9783035629927
Pages: 176
Year: 202605
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 73.13
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

(English / Spanish edition) This book studies the origins and lateevolution of modern Mexican architecture through a series of houses built bytwo generations of architects during the 1920s and 1980s in Guadalajara. In so doing,it proposes an alternative history of Mexican architecture--positioningGuadalajara as a counterpoint to Mexico City, and putting forward a series of worksand ideas that suggest a new relationship between innovation and tradition. This is also, inevitably, a book about LuisBarragán and the long shadow he cast over Mexican architecture. It explores hisearly and little-known work as part of a generation of architect-engineers knownas the Escuela Tapatía (theGuadalajara School), which in the 1920s developed an abstract and stylizedreinterpretation of the regional architecture of Jalisco. Even less well knownis the generation of architects who began their careers in Guadalajara in theearly 1980s. This group took the work of Barragán and his colleagues from the1920s as the starting point for its own production, resulting in an "echo of anecho"--a reinterpretation through time of an increasingly distant and abstractedoriginal. * Between tradition and abstraction: the architectural legacy of Pritzker Prize winner Luis Barragán in Mexico during the 1980s and 1990s * Featuring illustrative project profiles and critical texts * With numerous new photos and drawings Estelibro estudia los orígenes y la evolución tardía de la arquitectura modernamexicana a través de una serie de casasconstruidas por dos generaciones de arquitectos durante las décadas de 1920 y 1980 en Guadalajara. De estaforma, se propone una historia alternativa de la arquitectura mexicana,situando a Guadalajara como contrapunto a la Ciudad de México y presentando diversasobras e ideas quesugieren una nueva relaciónentre innovación ytradición.


Este es también, inevitablemente, un librosobre Luis Barragán y la larga sombra que su figura proyecta sobre la arquitectura mexicana. La publicación explora suobra temprana, poco conocida, realizada comoparte de una generación dearquitectos-ingenierosconocida como la Escuela Tapatía, que en la década de 1920 desarrolló unareinterpretación abstracta y estilizada de la arquitectura regional de Jalisco.Aún menos conocida es la generación de arquitectos que iniciaron su carrera enGuadalajara a principios de la década de 1980. Este grupotomó el trabajo deBarragán y sus colegas de los años veinte como punto de partida para su propiaproducción, dando lugar a un «eco de un eco»: una reinterpretación a lo largo del tiempo de unoriginal cada vez más distante y abstraído.


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