Modern Architecture in Manzanillo, Colima, México 1930-1970 (transfer and adaptation)

Abstract

The language of Modern Architecture in Latin America is the result of a process of transfer and adaptation of ideas, generated by the great European masters such as Mies, Gropius and Le Corbusier, due to the particular characteristics of each context they had to adapt to geographic, climatic and social conditions, this regionalization of architecture was the same in Argentina, Chile, Brazil and, of course, Mexico, in turn, allowed to be a catalyst in the transition towards the modernity of cities. In the modern architecture of Manzanillo some of the projects and works carried out in 1930 - 1970, this process becomes evident, which will become a part waters in the modernity of the city. Architectural compositions of the national program projects of which Manzanillo was included (schools, hospitals and tourist infrastructure) by foreign architects, print media (construction manuals, magazines, newspapers, brochures, postcards, etc.) and constant migratory flows of professionals who arrived at the port due to the commercial boom facilitated the transfer of the concepts of Modern Architecture.