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Modernity for the Masses

- Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires
Af: Ana Maria Leon Engelsk Hardback

Modernity for the Masses

- Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires
Af: Ana Maria Leon Engelsk Hardback
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2022 PROSE Award Finalist in Architecture and Urban Planning
2022 Association for Latin American Art Arvey Foundation Book Award, Honorable Mention

Throughout the early twentieth century, waves of migration brought working-class people to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This prompted a dilemma: Where should these restive populations be situated 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.

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2022 PROSE Award Finalist in Architecture and Urban Planning
2022 Association for Latin American Art Arvey Foundation Book Award, Honorable Mention

Throughout the early twentieth century, waves of migration brought working-class people to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This prompted a dilemma: Where should these restive populations be situated 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.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9781477321782
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1477321780
Udg. Dato: 16 mar 2021
Længde: 30mm
Bredde: 178mm
Højde: 254mm
Forlag: University of Texas Press
Oplagsdato: 16 mar 2021
Forfatter(e): Ana Maria Leon
Forfatter(e) Ana Maria Leon


Kategori Arkitekter og arkitektfirmaer


ISBN-13 9781477321782


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 288


Udgave


Længde 30mm


Bredde 178mm


Højde 254mm


Udg. Dato 16 mar 2021


Oplagsdato 16 mar 2021


Forlag University of Texas Press