MEXICO’S MODERN ARCHITECTURE
I. E. Myers
I. E. Myers: MEXICO’S MODERN ARCHITECTURE. New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc., 1952. First edition [in cooperation with The National Institute of Fine Arts of Mexico]. Parallel text in English and Spanish. Quarto. Orange cloth decorated in white. 264 pp. Fully illustrated with black and white photographs and plans. INSCRIBED by the author on half-title page: “To Lowell Hoxsey / cordially — / Irving Myers / 1954.” Front free endpaper neatly removed. Ink notation and small tape remnant to front pastedown. A couple of faint penciled underlinings to text. A very good copy of a scarce book.
8.5 x 10.5 hardcover book with 264 pages fully illustrated with black and white photographs by the author and floor and site plans of Modern Mexican Architecture in these categories: Residences, Office Buildings , Shops, Commercial Structures, Industry, Recreation, Religion, Hospitals/Clinics, Schools, the University City and Landscape Design.
Features furniture designed by Clare Porset and Michael Van Beuren and architecture by Augusto Alvarez, Rafael Arozarena, Francisco Artigas, Luis Barragán, Juan Becerra, Horacio Boy, Jorge Bravo, Raúl Cacho, Lorenzo Carrasco, Félix Candela, José Luis Certucha, Max Cetto, Manuel de la Colina, Victor de la Lama, Enrique de la Mora, Enrique de la Moral, Raúl Fernandez, Jesús Garcia Collantes, Alfonso Garduño, Ernesto Gómez Gallardo, Mauricio Gomez Mayorga, Jorge Gonzáles Reyna, Manuel Gonzales Rul, Santiago Greenham, José Hanhausen, Vladimir Kaspé, B. Kassler, Enrique Landa, Carlos Leduc, Ignacio Lopez Bancalari, Jaime Lopez Bermudez, Alonso Mariscal, Federico Mariscal, Nicolás Mariscal, Eduardo Mendez Fernandez, Enrique Molinar, Felix Nuncio, Carlos Obregon Santacilia, Salvador Ortega, Mateo Ortiz, Jorge Osorio, Mario Pani, Augusto Pérez Palacios, Eugenio Peschard, Alejandro Prieto, Pedro Ramirez Vásquez, Luis G. Rivadenerya, Augustin Rivera Torres, Juan Robles Gil, Guillermo Rossell, Manuel Rosen, Jorge Rubio, Raúl Salinas, Alejandro Sánchez de Tagle, Felix Sánchez, Joaquin Sánchez Hidalgo, Mario Schetjnan, Juan Sordo Madaleno, Ramón Torres Martinez, Eugenio Urquiza, Héctor Velázquez, Enrique Vergara, José Villagrán Garcia, Enrique Yañez, Raul Yzquierdo, Abraham Zabludowsky, and Carlos Zetina.