Building the Monster: Writing an Architectural History of the Revolutionary Years. A Review of Patrice E. Olsen's <em>Artifacts of Revolution: Architecture, Society and Politics in Mexico City, 1920-1940</em> (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009)

Authors

  • Andrew Grant Wood University of Tulsa

Keywords:

architectural discourse, Mexican revolution

Abstract

In Artifacts of Revolution: Architecture, Society and Politics in Mexico City, 1920-1940, Patrice Olsen closely considers aspects of Mexico City’s architecture and architectural discourse in the decades immediately following the revolution.

Author Biography

Andrew Grant Wood, University of Tulsa

Andrew Grant Wood es Profesor Asociado de historia en la Universidad de Tulsa. Es autor de Revolution in the Street, Women, Workers and Urban Protest in Veracruz, 1870-1927 (SR Books, 2001), editor de dos libros sobre la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos, y, recientemente, co-editor y colaborador de Holiday in Mexico: Critical Reflections on Tourism and Tourist Encounters (Duke University Press, 2010). Actualmente está completando una biografía cultural del compositor mexicano Agustín Lara.

Published

2010-04-01

How to Cite

Wood, A. G. (2010). Building the Monster: Writing an Architectural History of the Revolutionary Years. A Review of Patrice E. Olsen’s <em>Artifacts of Revolution: Architecture, Society and Politics in Mexico City, 1920-1940</em> (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 7(3), 441–445. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/548

Issue

Section

Reviews: Religion in Modern Mexico