Review: Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet’s Dreams for Buenos Aires

Book Review| September 01 2023 Review: Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet’s Dreams for Buenos Aires Ana María León Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet’s Dreams for Buenos Aires Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021, 288 pp., 60 b/w illus. $50 (cloth), ISBN 9781477321782 Inés Zalduendo Inés Zalduendo Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2023) 82 (3): 345–347. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.345 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Inés Zalduendo; Review: Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet’s Dreams for Buenos Aires. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2023; 82 (3): 345–347. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.345 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Ana María León’s Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet’s Dreams for Buenos Aires focuses on Argentina’s architectural avant-garde as it operated during the mid-twentieth century within a framework of state-sponsored projects to house Buenos Aires’s growing urban population. To build her narrative, León analyzes a small multifamily project and three larger unbuilt housing projects, all conceived by the Spanish architect Antonio Bonet (1913–89). She uses these works, produced during Bonet’s twenty years of professional practice in Argentina, to support her thesis concerning the shift in modern architectural practice from an active agent of change to a passive subject of capital. She also draws on local disciplinary discourses within architecture as well as within the fields of politics, sociology, and psychology. Although sociology and psychology did not emerge as disciplines in Argentina until Universidad Nacional del Litoral and Universidad de Buenos Aires began offering degrees in the late 1950s, ideas from... You do not currently have access to this content.