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020			_a9781452940151
020			_a1452940150
020			_z9780816678105 (hardback)
020			_z9780816678112 (pb)
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	0	_aNA2543.S6 _bH93 2012
082	0	0	_a720.1/1309729109044 _223
100	1		_aHyde, Timothy.
245	1	0	_aConstitutional modernism _h[electronic resource] : _barchitecture and civil society in Cuba, 1933-1959 / _cTimothy Hyde.
260			_aMinneapolis : _bUniversity of Minnesota Press, _c[2012] _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 371 pages :) _billustrations, maps ;
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 337-349) and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Constitutionalism and Civil Society -- I. Constitution -- 1. The Idealized Republic: The Constitution of 1940 -- 2. Better Cities, Better Citizens: The Political Function of Planning -- 3. A Perfect Structuring: Representing the Nation as Plan and Purpose -- II. City -- 4. Public Works: Constructing the Urban Spaces of Civil Society -- 5. Master Plans: The Retrospective Order of the Plan Piloto de la Habana -- 6. Historic Districts: The Regulation of the Past in Habana Vieja -- III. Monument -- 7. The Experience of Civic Conscience: Designs for the Monumento a Martì -- 8. The Prospect of Cubanidad: Figural Forms and the Palacio de las Palmas -- Epilogue: Futures of Constitutional Modernism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Abbreviations.
520			_a"How does architecture make its appearance in civil society? Constitutional Modernism pursues this challenging question by exploring architecture, planning, and law as cultural forces. Analyzing the complex entanglements between these disciplines in the Cuban Republic, Timothy Hyde reveals how architects joined with other professionals and intellectuals in efforts to establish a stable civil society, from the promulgation of a new Cuban Constitution in 1940 up until the Cuban Revolution.By arguing that constitutionalism was elaborated through architectural principles and practices as well as legal ones, Hyde offers a new view of architectural modernism as a political and social instrument. He contends that constitutionalism produced a decisive confluence of law and architecture, a means for planning the future of Cuba. The importance of architecture in this process is laid bare by Hyde's thorough scrutiny of a variety of textual, graphical, and physical artifacts. He examines constitutional articles, exhibitions, interviews, master plans, monuments, and other primary materials as acts of design.Read from the perspective of architectural history, Constitutional Modernism demonstrates how the modernist concepts that developed as an international discourse before the Second World War evolved through interactions with other disciplines into a civil urbanism in Cuba. And read from the perspective of Cuban history, the book explains how not only material products such as buildings and monuments but also the immaterial methods of architecture as a cultural practice produced ideas that had consequential effects on the political circumstances of the nation. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aHISTORY / Latin America / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aARCHITECTURE / History / General. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aModern movement (Architecture) _zCuba.
650		0	_aCity planning _zCuba _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aArchitecture and society _zCuba _xHistory _y20th century.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781452940151/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c33656 _d33656