Urbanism And Architecture In Viceregal Mexico

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 : Juan Luis Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781641893893
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urbanism and Architecture in Viceregal Mexico written by Juan Luis Burke and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a survey of the urban history in viceregal Mexico chronicling the creation and development of Puebla de los Ángeles through the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Puebla de los Ángeles was the second most important city in viceregal Mexico during this period and was an outstanding artistic and cultural centre. Using architecture and urbanism as a method for delving into the sophisticated social, political and cultural factors that shaped Puebla de los Ángeles's society, these themes are closely interwoven with important social and cultural issues such as the rise of Humanism in the city, religious festivities, environmental stewardship, racial and ethnic relations, as well as the history of science, amongst others.Written for a diverse audience, both knowledgeable in the subject or approaching it for the first time, Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico fills an important gap concerning urban biographies in the exciting field of colonial Mexico.

Author : Walter Harrington Kilham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican Architecture of the Vice-regal Period written by Walter Harrington Kilham and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Harrington Kilham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book Mexican Architecture of the Vice-regal Period written by Walter Harrington Kilham and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward R. Burian
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477307230
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to the Present written by Edward R. Burian and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The states of Northern Mexico—Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Baja California Norte and Sur—have architecture, urbanism, and landscape design that offer numerous lessons in how to build well, but this constructed environment is largely undervalued or unknown. To make this architecture better known to a wide professional, academic, and public audience, this book presents the first comprehensive overview in either English or Spanish of the architecture, urban landscapes, and cities of Northern Mexico from the country’s emergence as a modern nation in 1821 to the present day. Profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, maps, and analytical drawings of urban cores of major cities, The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico systematically examines significant works of architecture in large cities and small towns in each state, from the earliest buildings in the urban core to the newest at the periphery. Edward R. Burian describes the most memorable works of architecture in each city in greater detail in terms of their spatial organization, materials, and sensory experience. He also includes a concise geographical and historical summary of the region that provides a useful background for the discussions of the works of architecture. Burian concludes the book with a brief commentary on lessons learned and possible futures for the architectural culture of the region, as well as the first comprehensive biographical listing of the architects practicing in Northern Mexico during the past two centuries.

Author : Fernando Núñez
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1585445835
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space and Place in the Mexican Landscape written by Fernando Núñez and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphysical conceptions have always influenced how human societies create the built environment. Mexico—with its rich culture, full of symbol and myth, its beautiful cities, and its evocative ruins—is an excellent place to study the interplay of influences on space and place. In this volume, the authors consider the ideas and views that give the constructed spaces and buildings of Mexico—especially, of Querétaro—their particular ambience. They explore the ways the built world helps people find meaning and establish order for their earthly existence by mirroring their metaphysical assumptions, and they guide readers through time to see how the transformation of worldviews affects the urban evolution of a Mexican city. The authors, then, construct a “metaphysical archeology” of space and place in the built landscape of Mexico. In the process, they identify the intangible, spiritual aspects of this land. Not only scholars of architecture, but also archeologists and anthropologists—particularly those interested in Mexican backgrounds and culture—will appreciate the authors’ approach and conclusions.

Author : Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826334601
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821 written by Kelly Donahue-Wallace and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008-03-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kelly Donahue-Wallace surveys the art and architecture created in the Spanish Viceroyalties of New Spain, Peru, New Granada, and La Plata from the time of the conquest to the independence era. Emphasizing the viceregal capitals and their social, economic, religious, and political contexts, the author offers a chronological review of the major objects and monuments of the colonial era. In order to present fundamental differences between the early and later colonial periods, works are offered chronologically and separated by medium - painting, urban planning, religious architecture, and secular art - so the aspects of production, purpose, and response associated with each work are given full attention. Primary documents, including wills, diaries, and guild records are placed throughout the text to provide a deeper appreciation of the contexts in which the objects were made.

Author : Benjamin A. Bross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000527301
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico City’s Zócalo written by Benjamin A. Bross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a case study of one of Latin America’s most important and symbolic spaces, the Zócalo in Mexico City, weaving together historic events and corresponding morphological changes in the urban environment. It poses questions about how the identity of a place emerges, how it evolves and, why does it change? Mexico City’s Zócalo: A History of a Constructed Spatial Identity utilizes the history of a specific place, the Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución), to explain the emergence and evolution of Mexican identities over time. Starting from the pre-Hispanic period to present day, the work illustrates how the Zócalo reveals spatial manifestations as part of the larger socio-cultural zeitgeist. By focusing on the history of changes in spatial production – what Henri Lefebvre calls society’s "secretions" – Bross traces how cultural, social, economic, and political forces shaped the Zócalo’s spatial identity and, in turn, how the Zócalo shaped and fostered new identities in return. It will be a fascinating read for architectural and urban historians investigating Latin America.

Author : Christian von Wissel
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035618313
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dwelling Urbanism written by Christian von Wissel and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City dwellers are direct agents in the making of cities; yet how do they actually constitute and sustain the urban and its forms? How do they practice the urban and through this practice shape the city-in-the-making that emerges along with them on the backs of their working bodies? Dwelling Urbanism re-thinks the urban from this perspective of corporeal making and with regard to the cityness that it bears. It delves into the thick of life in the periphery of Mexico City, uncovering the everyday actions and efforts that practitioners of space accomplish when building houses, creating jobs and putting themselves to work as infrastructure. How are consequential conjunctions, how is access to, and presence in the city actively grown? And what does such thinking the city as a verb, as citying, imply for urban planning?

Author : Walter H. Kilham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780849022333
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican Architecture of the Vice-Regal Period written by Walter H. Kilham and published by . This book was released on 1976-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: