Designing Together 2009 - Living in the Américas
Designing Together 2009 - Living in the Américas
Sep 14, 2009
Reference
BAC / ITESM Parallel Studio
Reading Materials:
Most of the readings from the following two texts:
The Burning Plain
and other Stories By Juan Rulfo
Translated by George D. Schade
Illustrated by Kermit Oliver
The Labyrinth of Solitude: The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Ogre By Octavio Paz
We also take in a chapter or two of Orozco, who was an eyewitness of the revolution:
José Clemente Orozco, an autobiography
These two websites give background to the portion of the revolution that affected Barragán greatly:
Wikipedia’s view of the Cristero War
Jim Tuck’s view of the Cristero War on Mexconnect’s website - in three parts
Rulfo’s full novel is a good one to bring on the plane:
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)
.pdf files of studio project site
The websites from two of the previous studios show examples of preparatory work:
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