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Casa O'Gorman: 1929 (Hardcover)
Juan O'Goman; Text written by Toyo Ito, Xavier Guzman, Victor Jimenez
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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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