CONSTRUCCIÓN DEL PALACIO LEGISLATIVO FEDERAL: ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS

México: Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Obras Públicas, SCOP, 1919. (with detached covers, marginal wear and chipping, lower right small-size corner of front cover missing; some light chipping at edges). chiefly b/w plates (one color), plans, illus., draws., embossed title in front cover. OCLC: 63641514. The construction of the building that was meant to be the seat of the federal legislature -destined to compete against the Capitol in Washington-, was assigned to architect Émile Bérnard (France 1844-1929) in 1904 by President Porfirio Díaz. Due to the revolutionary movements of the time, construction was suspended. Through the next 20 years the enormous structure was gradually dismantled. In 1933 architect Carlos Obregón Santacillia rescued the project and designed with what was left of the central dome of what is now the Monument to the Revolution, an architectural concept in which he combined Art Deco with elements of large proportions. The present volume documents with plans, graphics, photographs (of statues and scale models), and beautiful drawings of inside rooms and outside details of what was to be the monumental neoclassic building. Includes one full-page color reproduction of the rendering of the finished building signed in plate by architect Émile Bérnard and dated 1907.