![]() ![]() ![]() These fragments expose a crack which is already hinted at in the title of the exhibition, and which is the disengagement in Mexico between the technical, economic and social modernity from that of the architectural modernity. ![]() In this essay, four fragments are presented as possible explanations for this prolific and diverse production. These fragments seem to be the most productive way to reconstruct a reasonable curiosity in forms of architecture that have relevance beyond their specific historical condition. In spite of the efforts by theorists and historians to construct a canon, whether one built around monumentalism, site, ideology and revolution, exceptionality or an adapted modernism, the history of Mexican modern architecture can better be grasped as an array of fragments that explain the diverse and heterogeneous production of over 50 years of design and building. The exhibition Mexican Modernisms, starts with the assumption that there is not one single homogeneous history of modern architecture in Mexico but rather a complex and multiple set of narratives and productions. ![]()
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