Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico provides a
complex and nuanced understanding of the functionalist architecture
developed in Mexico during the 1930s. It carefully re-reads the
central texts and projects of its main advocates to show how their
theories responded to the socially and culturally charged Mexican
context. These, such as architects Juan Legarreta, Juan O'Gorman,
the Union of Socialist Architects, and Manuel Amabilis, were part
of broader explorations to develop a modern, national architecture
intended to address the needs of the Mexican working classes.
Through their refunctioning of functionalism, these radical
thinkers showed how architecture could stand at the precipice of
Mexico's impending modernization and respond to its impending
changes. The book examines their engagement and negotiation with
foreign influences, issues of gender and class, and the separation
between art and architecture. Functionalist practices are presented
as contradictory and experimental, as challenging the role of
architecture in the transformation of society, and as intimately
linked to art and local culture in the development of new forms of
architecture for Mexico, including the "vernacularization" of
functionalism itself. Uniquely including translations of two
manifesto-like texts by O'Gorman expressing the polemical nature of
their investigations, Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture
for Mexico will be a useful reference for scholars, researchers and
students interested in the history of architectural movements.
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