| Description |
1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Intro -- Introduction -- 1. A Wandering Ship -- 2. The Machine in the Pampas -- 3. The Peronist Unconscious -- 4. Eternal Returns -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
Throughout the early twentieth century, waves of migration brought working-class people to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This prompted a dilemma: Where to situate these restive populations relative to the city's spatial politics? Might housing serve as a tool to discipline their behavior? Enter Antonio Bonet, a Catalan architect inspired by the transatlantic modernist and surrealist movements. Ana María León follows Bonet's decades-long, state-backed quest to house Buenos Aires's diverse and fractious population. Working with totalitarian and populist regimes, Bonet developed three large-scale housing plans, each scuttled as a new government took over. Yet these incomplete plans--Bonet's dreams--teach us much about the relationship between modernism and state power. Modernity for the Masses finds in Bonet's projects the disconnect between modern architecture's discourse of emancipation and the reality of its rationalizing control. Although he and his patrons constantly glorified the people and depicted them in housing plans, Bonet never consulted them. Instead he succumbed to official and elite fears of the people's latent political power. In careful readings of Bonet's work, León discovers the progressive erasure of surrealism's psychological sensitivity, replaced with an impulse, realized in modernist design, to contain the increasingly empowered population |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Bonet Castellana, Antoni, 1913-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Bonet Castellana, Antoni, 1913-1989 fast |
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Architecture and society -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 20th century
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Unbuilt architectural projects -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 20th century
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Housing -- Political aspects -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 20th century
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ARCHITECTURE / History / General.
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Architecture and society
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Housing -- Political aspects
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Unbuilt architectural projects
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Argentina -- Buenos Aires
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1477321799 |
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9781477321799 |
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