Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet’s Dreams for Buenos Aires by Ana María León (Leon)
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Overview: Throughout the early twentieth century, waves of migration brought working-class people to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This prompted a dilemma: Where should these restive populations be situated relative to the city’s spatial politics? Might housing serve as a tool to discipline their behavior?
Enter Antonio Bonet, a Catalan architect inspired by the transatlantic modernist and surrealist movements. Ana María León follows Bonet’s decades-long, state-backed quest to house Buenos Aires’s diverse and fractious population. Working with totalitarian and populist regimes, Bonet developed three large-scale housing plans, each scuttled as a new government took over. Yet these incomplete plans―Bonet’s dreams―teach us much about the relationship between modernism and state power.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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