Vivienda para Trabajadores Petroleros: Paraiso, Tabasco

(Architecture) (Urban Planning) (Socialism) Alcala Tejeda, Javier; Javier Castillo Juarez; and Jesus Humberto Sanabria Miravete. Vivienda para Trabajadores Petroleros: Paraiso, Tabasco. Thesis, Universidad Nacional Auto´noma de Me´xico, Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura. Me´xico, D.F.: [1979]. Oblong 4to, 91 pp.; illus. include maps, graphs, comics, elevations and plans, including some folding; comb binding with pictorial card wraps, some wear. Dated gift inscription from Castillo to a friend. Ideological proposal for worker housing at the Dos Bocas PEMEX petroleum plant in the Gulf of Me´xico. Construction had only recently begun at the time of the thesis presentation and the research responds to public controversy over its ecological and economic impacts, and the political expediency of PEMEX's sudden expansion in this strategic zone. The authors also echo the concerns of the Partido Mexicano de los Trabajadores (PMT), a revolutionary socialist party that emerged from the 1968 student protest movement. One of authors, Javier Castillo Juarez, was the son of engineer Heberto Castillo Martínez, founder of the PMT and inventor a key structural technology, tridilosa, for seismic zone construction. Along with site research and design, the three students propose human-scaled architecture that looks toward the future of labor and urban living in place of modernist formalism. Traditional architectural thesis work is interspersed with anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist comics and polemic. In its conclusions the authors argue that the need for a truly revolutionary architecture exceeds university flag-waving; it requires methodological analysis and practical plans. Not mentioned in OCLC. SOLD