LEARN TO INHABIT THE SCHOOL ARCHITECTURE OF THE NEW URBAN ORDER (FEDERAL DISTRICT, MEXICO, 1932)

Authors

  • Dr. Carlos Ortega Dirección de Difusión de Ciencia y Tecnología, Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Keywords:

School Architecture, Learning, Modernity, Urban Order, Juan O'Gorman

Abstract

In 1932, the team of technicians led by the functionalist architect Juan O’Gorman developed a school architecture project for the popular neighborhoods of the Federal District (Mexico). One of those schools, the Emiliano Zapata Elementary School (currently recognized as a national artistic monument), was built in a neighborhood founded in the north of Mexico City as part of an urban expansion strategy promoted by businessmen and by the Mexican government. Its builders thought that the school building was the means to transform the popular classes of Mexican society and promote a modern urban order. Functionalist school architecture generated heated discussions between engineers and architects about the impact of this type of buildings on the urban landscape and on the taste of its inhabitants.  However, its promoters assured that eventually the popular classes would learn to inhabit the new school buildings and they would overcome the illiteracy and unhealthiness that affected both their bodies and their minds.

Author Biography

  • Dr. Carlos Ortega, Dirección de Difusión de Ciencia y Tecnología, Instituto Politécnico Nacional

    Doctor in History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 2017-2019 he completed a postdoctoral stay at the Cinvestav Department of Educational Research. In 2016, he received the National Journalism Award. His research topics are history of technology, material culture and school architecture. Among his publications on school architecture, we can find: “What Remained of Juan O’Gorman's Schools? Reflections from History on a 1932 School Architecture Project ”, in Anuario Argentino de Historia de la Educación (2019); "A National and Popular School Architecture During the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1914-1917", in Revista História da Educação (2019); “Political History of Technology: a Methodological Proposal for the History of School Architecture (Mexico City, 1880-1920), in Revista Mexicana de Historia de la Educación (2015); "First Technical Regulations in Mexican School Architecture (1880-1920)", in Quipu, Revista Latinoamericana de Historia de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (2013); and "Science and Revolution in School Architecture in Mexico City (1910-1920)", in Ciencia y Desarrollo (2012).

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Published

2021-04-26

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Vol. 37 No. 1 (2021): Vol. 37 (2021)

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Thematic dossier

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LEARN TO INHABIT THE SCHOOL ARCHITECTURE OF THE NEW URBAN ORDER (FEDERAL DISTRICT, MEXICO, 1932). (2021). Educação Em Revista , 37(1). https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/edrevista/article/view/24481

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