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Juan O'Gorman: Casa O'Gorman 1929

Juan O'Gorman: Casa O'Gorman 1929

O'Goman, Juan
Guzmán, Xavier
Ito, Toyo

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ArchitectsGeneral ArchitectureRegional Architecture

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ISBN10: 8415118325
ISBN13: 9788415118329
Publisher: Rm
Published: Mar 24 2015
Pages: 128
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Mexican architect and painter Juan O'Gorman (1905-82) had a spectacular debut as an architect, designing his own house at the age of 24. On the strength of this building, Diego Rivera commissioned O'Gorman to design a pair of studio-houses for himself and Frida Kahlo on contiguous lots, connected by a bridge. But O'Gorman was somewhat forgotten in histories of modern architecture, until the restoration of Rivera's and Kahlo's house in the late 1990s led to a rediscovery of the architect's work and a reappraisal of his place in contemporary Mexican architecture. In 2013 O'Gorman's own first house, which he began designing in 1929 and completed in 1931, was restored. Uncompromisingly radical and rigorously functional, this design reveals O'Gorman as a Mexican pioneer of avant-garde architecture. Casa O'Gorman 1929 tells the story of this unique building and how it was salvaged through beautiful color photographs.

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