Author: Walter Harrington KilhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Mexican Architecture of the Vice-regal Period
Author: Walter Harrington KilhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Mexican Architecture of the Vice-Regal Period
Author: Walter Harrington KilhamPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258783693
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico
Author: Juan Luis BurkePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000383547
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
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.
Mexican Architecture of the Vice-regal Period
Author: Walter Harrington KilhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Architecture and Its Sculpture in Viceregal Mexico
Author: Robert J. MullenPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292752108
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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.
Architecture and Its Sculpture in Viceregal Mexico
Author: Robert J. MullenPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788053
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
From monumental cathedrals to simple parish churches, perhaps as many as 100,000 churches and civic buildings were constructed in Mexico during the viceregal or colonial period (1535-1821). Many of these structures remain today as witnesses to the fruitful blending of Old and New World forms and styles that created an architecture of enduring vitality. In this profusely illustrated book, Robert J. Mullen provides a much-needed overview of Mexican colonial architecture and its attendant sculpture. Writing with just the right level of detail for students and general readers, he places the architecture in its social and economic context. He shows how buildings in the larger cities remained closer to European designs, while buildings in the pueblos often included prehispanic indigenous elements. This book grew out of the author's twenty-five-year exploration of Mexico's architectural and sculptural heritage. Combining an enthusiast's love for the subject with a scholar's care for accuracy, it is the perfect introduction to the full range of Mexico's colonial architecture.
Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821
Author: Kelly Donahue-WallacePublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826334598
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A chronological overview of important art, sculpture, and architectural monuments of colonial Latin America within the economic and religious contexts of the era.
The Churches of Mexico 1530-1810
Author: Joseph Armstrong Baird Jr.Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321340
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.
Artwork
Author: The Islamic Design Module in Latin America
Author: John F. MoffittPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786418060
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This study analyzes the distinctive look of Hispanic architecture. Its triangulate format, originated in Islamic Spain, was based on workshop techniques once used by journeyman designers and simple artisans. Spain was the only European transatlantic colonial power to have once been occupied by Islamic overlords. Spain's conquistadors took their traditional building methods to Latin America. Formal analyses of the facades of various Latin American churches reveal them to reiterate procedures worked out in Andalusia by Islamic builders in the ninth and tenth centuries. Though widely separated by time and place, both share a proportionate system determining abstract ratios; in both cases, this regulating format was derived from manipulations of the Pythagorean triangles. This "trazado regulador" is only expressed in ratios, with no numbers, and is illustrated here with 85 visual examples including measured drawings of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and medieval European prototypes. Grounded in historical and physical data, the research is partially drawn from four practical builders' manuals: two seventeenth-century Spanish ones and two Mexican ones from ca. 1640 and 1800. In an appendix, Viollet-le-Duc (a major nineteenth-century architect) explains architectural proportionality and the design function of the Pythagorean Triangle.