| Journal: | Academia XXII |
| Database: | |
| System number: | 000558373 |
| ISSN: | 2007-252X |
| Authors: | López, Albert José-Antonio |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Volumen: | 9 |
| Number: | 18 |
| Pages: | 136-158 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Español |
| English abstract | This essay offers context for the establishment of the discourses of tech- nical architecture (arquitectura técnica), integral planning (plani cación integral), the appearance and rise of the técnico, and mid-century Mexican architects" jurisdictional claims in the realms of politics and governance. I show how certain architects working as planners during the 1920"s and a younger generation of socially conscious architects emerging in the 1930"s claimed that members of the profession had a duty to work in collaborative environments and to directly engage with the state not only as technical experts or specialists, but more importantly as general man- agerial gures as a means of advancing their professional prestige, so- cial agendas, and political aspirations. Furthermore, this work introduces the role of language in the expanding and at times divergent professional trends in Mexican architecture during the period. I explore the creation and use of neologisms and politicized terms such as plani cación as well as the word "técnico" in the professionalization of architecture and its in- tersections with Mexican political society and post-revolutionary state construction. I argue that the use of these words by certain members of the profession aided some in making claims to the responsibility and right to govern and eventually contributed to a collective mobility project that sought to ll political/administrative posts with architects/planners. |
| Keyword: | planificación, integral, técnico, técnica, state construction, political society, professionalization, expertise, specialization, management, administration |
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