How does architecture make its appearance in civil society? Constitutional Modernism pursues this challenging question by exploring architecture; planning; and law as cultural forces. Analyzing the complex entanglements between these disciplines in the Cuban Republic; Timothy Hyde reveals how architects joined with other professionals and intellectuals in efforts to establish a stable civil society; from the promulgation of a new Cuban Constitution in 1940 up until the Cuban Revolution.By arguing that constitutionalism was elaborated through architectural principles and practices as well as legal ones; Hyde offers a new view of architectural modernism as a political and social instrument. He contends that constitutionalism produced a decisive confluence of law and architecture; a means for planning the future of Cuba. The importance of architecture in this process is laid bare by Hyde’s thorough scrutiny of a variety of textual; graphical; and physical artifacts. He examines constitutional articles; exhibitions; interviews; master plans; monuments; and other primary materials as acts of design.Read from the perspective of architectural history; Constitutional Modernism demonstrates how the modernist concepts that developed as an international discourse before the Second World War evolved through interactions with other disciplines into a civil urbanism in Cuba. And read from the perspective of Cuban history; the book explains how not only material products such as buildings and monuments but also the immaterial methods of architecture as a cultural practice produced ideas that had consequential effects on the political circumstances of the nation.
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