The Colonial Architecture Of Mexico

Author : James Early
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870744501
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colonial Architecture of Mexico written by James Early and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of two histories written in English on Mexican architecture in the entire colonial period, Early's book sheds new light for North Americans on the diverse and changing society of the scene of colonial New Spain.

Author : Kathryn E. O'Rourke
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822981629
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Architecture in Mexico City written by Kathryn E. O'Rourke and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories of Mexican colonial architecture, which suggested that Mexico possessed a distinctive architecture and culture, beginning in the 1920s a new generation of architects created profoundly visual modern buildings intended to convey Mexico's unique cultural character. By midcentury these architects and their students had rewritten the country's architectural history and transformed the capital into a metropolis where new buildings that evoked pre-conquest, colonial, and International Style architecture coexisted. Through an exploration of schools, a university campus, a government ministry, a workers' park, and houses for Diego Rivera and Luis Barragan, Kathryn O'Rourke offers a new interpretation of modern architecture in the Mexican capital, showing close links between design, evolving understandings of national architectural history, folk art, and social reform. This book demonstrates why creating a distinctively Mexican architecture captivated architects whose work was formally dissimilar, and how that concern became central to the profession.

Author : Sylvester Baxter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spanish-colonial Architecture in Mexico written by Sylvester Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Early
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colonial Architecture of Mexico written by James Early and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated general history of the grandiose flowering of architecture in Mexico from the 16th to the 19th century.

Author : Sylvester Baxter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780243644315
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spanish-Colonial Architecture in Mexico written by Sylvester Baxter and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rexford Newcomb
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486157393
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spanish-Colonial Architecture in the United States written by Rexford Newcomb and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic study by noted authority traces Spanish architectural influence in Florida, the Gulf Coast, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. 195 photographs and 50 measured drawings.

Author : Juan Luis Burke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000383547
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico written by Juan Luis Burke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico presents a fascinating survey of urban history between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It chronicles the creation and development of Puebla de los Ángeles, a city located in central-south Mexico, during its viceregal period. Founded in 1531, the city was established as a Spanish settlement surrounded by important Indigenous towns. This situation prompted a colonial city that developed along Spanish colonial guidelines but became influenced by the native communities that settled in it, creating one of the most architecturally rich cities in colonial Spanish America, from the Renaissance to the Baroque periods. This book covers the city's historical background, investigating its civic and religious institutions as represented in selected architectural landmarks. Throughout the narrative, Burke weaves together sociological, anthropological, and historical analysis to discuss the city’s architectural and urban development. Written for academics, students, and researchers interested in architectural history, Latin American studies, and the Spanish American viceregal period, it will make an important contribution to the field.

Author : Robert J. Mullen
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292752108
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Its Sculpture in Viceregal Mexico written by Robert J. Mullen and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a profusely illustrated work, art historian Robert J. Mullen provides an overview of Mexican colonial architecture and its attendant sculpture. Writing both for students and general readers, he places the architecture in its social and economic context, showing buildings in the larger cities closer to European designs, while those in pueblos often included prehispanic indigenous elements. 172 photos. 20 line drawings. 5 maps.

Author : Samuel Y. Edgerton
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826322562
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theaters of Conversion written by Samuel Y. Edgerton and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico's churches and conventos display a unique blend of European and native styles. Missionary Mendicant friars arrived in New Spain shortly after Cortes's conquest of the Aztec empire in 1521 and immediately related their own European architectural and visual arts styles to the tastes and expectations of native Indians. Right from the beginning the friars conceived of conventos as a special architectural theater in which to carry out their proselytizing. Over four hundred conventos were established in Mexico between 1526 and 1600, and more still in New Mexico in the century following, all built and decorated by native Indian artisans who became masters of European techniques and styles even as they added their own influence. The author argues that these magnificent sixteenth and seventeenth-century structures are as much part of the artistic patrimony of American Indians as their pre-Conquest temples, pyramids, and kivas. Mexican Indians, in fact, adapted European motifs to their own pictorial traditions and thus made a unique contribution to the worldwide spread of the Italian Renaissance. The author brings a wealth of knowledge of medieval and Renaissance European history, philosophy, theology, art, and architecture to bear on colonial Mexico at the same time as he focuses on indigenous contributions to the colonial enterprise. This ground-breaking study enriches our understanding of the colonial process and the reciprocal relationship between European friars and native artisans.

Author : C. Cody Barteet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138585652
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architectural Rhetoric and the Iconography of Authority in Colonial Mexico written by C. Cody Barteet and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the Casa de Montejo and considers the role of the building's Plateresque façade as a form of visual rhetoric that conveyed ideas about the individual and communal cultural identities in sixteenth-century Yucatán. C. Cody Barteet analyzes the façade within the complex colonial world in which it belongs, including in multicultural Yucatán and the transatlantic world. This contextualization allows for an examination of the architectural rhetoric of the façade, the design of which visualizes the contestations of autonomy and authority occurring among the colonial peoples.