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- Title
La involución de la cultura doméstica moderna: EL PROCESO PROYECTUAL DE LA CASA ELOSÚA DE IGNACIO DÍAZ MORALES.
- Authors
PÉREZ-DUARTE-FERNÁNDEZ, ALEJANDRO; GUADALUPE BOJÓRQUEZ-MARTÍNEZ, YOLANDA
- Abstract
The Mexican assimilation of the culture of the house of the Modern Movement was facilitated by disclosure in circulating publications in which the "modern" will be introduced in the form of small discussions. Large circulation newspapers between 1920 and 1940 show housing within a debate axis, promoting new spatial configurations and domestic habits. Within this perspective, the observation of the project process of the famous Casa Elosúa (1934, Guadalajara), a project by Ignacio Díaz Morales, is presented as an opportunity to recover the architectural debate of that time. In its development, however, one can observe steps that go in the opposite direction, against the dominant search for innovative domestic formulas by most of the architects of the time. In the three versions of the Casa Elosúa, we observe a Díaz Morales who moves from the model with a "modern hall" solution to a model based on the preservation of tradition, with a patio and corridor typical of Mexican houses. The process blurs the initial "modern" point, in which it was inscribed early in the thirties, to favor a regional architecture, which values aspects such as "peace and tranquility" of a "family life". Through a reading of architectural plans, crossed with publications of the time, it is possible to identify not only the ideas and habits of the house but also revealing signs of polemics of Mexican architecture, indecisive between nationalism and the desire for "modern" innovation with foreign inspiration. In the case of the Casa Elosúa, however, efforts can be observed that point in the opposite direction to what classical historiography notes, as if it were a strange contrary process to a natural evolution of the modern house culture.
- Publication
Legado de Arquitectura y Diseño, 2021, Vol 16, Issue 30, p32
- ISSN
2007-3615
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.36677/legado.v16i30.15179