The Graduate Student Book Group provides an opportunity for graduate students to meet with the author of a recently published book to discuss the process of developing a book-length study in architectural history. On Wednesday, March 26, 2025, participants met with authors Delia Cosentino and Adriana Zavala to discuss the decade-long process of developing their book Resurrecting Tenochtitlan: Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City.
"This book project is born from many years of collaborative work and the authors' deep fondness for Mexico City", writes Yannick Etoundi, Book Group Chair for 2025. "During the conversation, Delia and Adriana brought us into the long process of developing this book project, including its challenges and new lines of interrogations that emerged along the way."
"By focusing on Chapter 6, Delia and Adriana spoke more in-depth on the intimate relationship between cartography and architecture within both visual art and the existing built environment of Mexico City, as exemplified by Juan O'Gorman's painting La Ciudad de Mexico, and his mosaic mural for the Central Library of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Altogether, the authors highlighted the palimpsestic history of Mexico City and importantly, the myths and narratives that have shaped this history over time."
Watch a video recording of the full conversation
Videos for the last five events are available on the Graduate Student Book Group web page.
