Radical Functionalism

A Social Architecture for Mexico

Luis E. Carranza

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English

Routledge
25 September 2023

Theory of architecture; Individual architects & architectural firms; History of architecture; History of the Americas; The environment

Series: Routledge Research in Architecture

"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 re-reads the central texts and projects of its main advocates to show how their theories responded to the socially and culturally charged Mexican context. These, such as architects Juan Legarreta, Juan O’Gorman, the Union of Socialist Architects, and Manuel Amábilis, were part of broader explorations to develop a modern, national architecture intended to address the needs of the Mexican working classes.

Through their refunctioning of functionalism, these radical thinkers showed how architecture could stand at the precipice of Mexico's impending modernization and respond to its impending changes. The book examines their engagement and negotiation with foreign influences, issues of gender and class, and the separation between art and architecture. Functionalist practices are presented as contradictory and experimental, as challenging the role of architecture in the transformation of society, and as intimately linked to art and local culture in the development of new forms of architecture for Mexico, including the ""vernacularization"" of functionalism itself.

Uniquely including translations of two manifesto-like texts by O’Gorman expressing the polemical nature of their investigations, Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico will be a useful reference for scholars, researchers and students interested in the history of architectural movements."

By: Luis E. Carranza
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032003573
ISBN 10: 103200357X
Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction: Polemical Functionalism: Functional Art or Artistic Building; 1. Building Revolution: Mexican Architecture in the First Part of the Twentieth Century; 2. Functionalism and Social Progress; 3: Alter(n)ative Functionalism; 4: Radical Functionalism; 5: Between Art and Technology; 6: Place, History, and (Local) Culture; 7: Representation and Reception; 8: The City in the Functionalist Imagination; Epilogue: Organic Functionalism; Translations: ""Artistic"" Art and Useful Art; Presentation for the Sociedad de Arquitectos Mexicanos, 1933"

Luis E. Carranza is Professor of Architecture at Roger Williams University and Adjunct Associate Professor at the GSAPP at Columbia University. He obtained his BArch from the University of Southern California and PhD in Architectural History and Theory from Harvard University. His research and publications are centered on how social movements and their theoretical ideals manifest themselves through modern art and architecture in Latin America and Mexico in particular. His publications include Architecture as Revolution: Episodes in the History of Modern Mexico (2010), Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, Utopia (with Fernando Lara, 2015), and Experiments in (Radical) Functionalism (2020).