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Experiences of urban planning: Hannes Meyer’s urban projects in Mexico (1938-1949)

No. 12 (2013-07-01)
  • Raquel Franklin Unkind
    1Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad Anáhuac México Norte rfranklin1120@gmail.com Coordinadora del Centro de Investigación en Arquitectura de la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad Anáhuac México Norte. Doctor of Science (Architecture) por el Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Es miembro fundador de Docomomo, México y becaria de la Fundacion Bauhaus-Dessau.
https://doi.org/10.18389/dearq12.2013.05

Abstract

Hannes Meyer arrived in Mexico in 1938 to take part in the XVIth International Housing and Town Planning Congress. One year later he founded the Institute for Urban Development and Planning and stayed in Mexico for the next ten years undertaking various urban projects such as the Lomas de Becerra Apartment Block, the Corpus Christi block, and the Agua Hedionda beach resort. Each one of these is the result of a dialectic process with his previous phases of work in which it is possible to see elements such as his Swiss-German and Soviet ideas. Over this article his emphasis on science will be highlighted.

Keywords: modern movement, low-income housing, recreation, skyscraper