Richard Aldrich. Style in Mexican Architecture. (Photographs by Richard Merrick and Merle G. Wachter.) Coral Gables, Florida: University of Miami Press. 112 pp. $15.00.

1969 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 646-647
Author(s):  
José Larcret
Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Lucía Martín López ◽  
Rodrigo Durán López

While several women’s movements that aimed to modify their relationship with public space were taking place across the world, in 1956, the Mexican Social Security Institute founded the program Casa de la Asegurada, the subject of this study, as a tool for improving the social security of Mexican families through the input of cultural, social, artistic, and hygienic knowledge for women. The program’s facilities, Casas de la Asegurada, are located in the large Mexican housing complexes, articulating themselves to the existing city. Despite the impact on the lives of Mexican families, these have been ignored throughout the history of Mexican architecture. The main objective of this paper is to show the state of the art of Casa de la Asegurada and its facilities located in Mexico City. To achieve this, the greatest number available of primary sources on the topic was compiled through archive and document research. Sources were classified identifying information gaps to explain, in three different scales (program, facilities, and a case study), how they work through their objectives, performed activities, and evolved through time, so that the gathered information is analyzed with an urbanistic, architectural, and gender approach to contribute new ideas in the building of facilities that allow women empowerment.


1999 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 569-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.P Misiakos ◽  
D Weppler ◽  
A Bakonyi ◽  
J.R Nery ◽  
A.D Pinna ◽  
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