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[ARCHITECTURE -- MEXICO]. [MONDRAGON, Eulalio].Biblio.com

Interesting architectural album with 18 original photographs of Jazz Age homes built by Mondragon in and around present day Mexico City including imposing homes of brick & stone as well as Spanish Style stucco bungalows many with ornamental ironwork fences balconies and gates.

1928réf. 49951General Anaya D.F. Mexico: Ave Monte Blanco 43 ca. 1928-1930. Oblong 4to. 28 pp unpaginated on thick black card stock w/ 18 original silver gelatin photographs sized from 2.5 x 3.75 in. up to 5 x 7 in. majority tipped-in or mounted with black corners some with caption included in the negative at lower fore-edge a few with ink annotations at fore-edge indicating Mondragon and the client’s name. Contemporary textured gray boards photo album sewn w/ dark gray-green leather tie at gutter margin through two holes minor rubbing scuffing to fore-edges a couple photos w/ very minor tears at lower corners slight soiling still VG exemplar. This intriguing photo album offers an excellent catalogue of several homes built by Eulalio Mondragon in and around Mexico City during the Jazz Age. Based out of his business address in the General Anaya Borough Mexican Federal District which was created in 1928 Mondragon displays here a number of modest Spanish-style bungalows with stucco brick decoration porches and elaborate iron fences & gates in front of the homes. A few have distinctive Art Deco elements reflected in the crenellations along the roof line as well as architectural features in the low walls in front of the homes with porches attached. One of the homes was a larger brick & stone house with large porch arched windows and even garage for an automobile seen dimly in the entrance below the house. One of the homes includes geometric patterns reminiscent of the Ennis House created by Frank Lloyd Wright to emulate a Mayan temple. This album offers an informative depiction of domestic architecture during the turbulent period right after the Mexican Revolution and at the time of the founding of the National Revolutionary Party in Mexico. Ave Monte Blanco 43, hardcover

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[ARCHITECTURE & URBAN PLANNING -- SEATTLE, WA]. DE LEUW, [Charles E]Biblio.com

Report on a comprehensive public transportation plan for the Seattle Metropolitan area. . . ; The rapid transit plan for the Metropolitan Seattle area: technical appendix. . . .

1919réf. 63442Seattle WA: De Leuw Cather & Co. Consulting Engineers Oct. 1967; March 19 1970 Two vols. Oblong folio. 13.5 x 11.5 in. xi 1 2-125 3 pp. With photos illustrations diagrams architectural renderings urban designs some colour maps many pages printed in red & black. White printed boards black lettering front cover plastic-comb binding as issued minor dustsoiling thumbing 1 leaf w/ specific underlining & ink MS annotations still VG- copy; 4to. Approx. 300 pp sections all separately paginated w/ assorted additions. With charts maps photographs diagrams illustrations. Printed board covers lettering in red & black wire spiral binding as issued minor shelfwear slight rubbing still a VG set. First editions of both volumes of these prescient urban planning architectural reports which were among the nation’s first large-scale attempts at regional planning for transportation and land use to encourage economic growth. These reports represented the culmination of reform movements rooted in President Kennedy’s space race and emphasis on scientific achievement celebrated by the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair which fast-tracked Seattle’s ambitions for sports science the arts and global trade together with the Johnson administration’s “Great Society” efforts encouraging efforts to upgrade transit arterials public parks community centers to reduce poverty and improve dense urban city environments for growing businesses and social good. De Leuw Cather teamed with the architects Naramore Bain Brady & Johanson urban designers Okamoto/Kiskamm and others envisioned this report as vital to growing a stable economy and underpinning the 1968 “Forward Thrust” transit measure which was to turbo-charge Seattle’s growth reminiscent of the efforts in Toronto Ontario Canada. Unfortunately the 1968 version bond initiative only received 51% of the vote short of the needed 60%. The 1970 Rapid Transit Plan which streamlined the original proposal included here failed by a much higher margin as Seattle by then had fallen into the deep Boeing Recession caused by business downturn but also the cancellation of the SST project as Americans and the US Congress soured on the ever-growing cost of the supersonic aircraft development as well as the continued supersonic booms. Both versions of the De Leuw driven plans focused on the combination and development of mass transit rail bus transit and pedestrian aspects in order to drive social good. Today in many respects the Seattle Metropolitan Area over 50 years later has incorporated many aspects of the Mid-20th-Century Modern vision which emerged from the enthusiasm of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair. See: Kit Oldham The Puget Sound Regional Transportation Study Releases its Final Report on September 30 1967 HistoryLink Essay 7783 Sept. 20 2006; Ryan Packer Seattle Transportation Plan Shows an Ambitious Vision The Urbanist August 25 2023; David Brewster Seattle in the ‘70s: A Time for Reform Seattle Weekly March 30 2016. De Leuw, Cather & Co., Consulting Engineers, hardcover

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