Designing Pan-America
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Designing Pan-America by Robert Rydell
Coinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), Gonzalez explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America.
"Designing Pan-America is an important survey of the architectural culture generated by Washington geopolitics for building the idea of the Western Hemisphere between the global expansion of US empire around 1800 and its seeming regression around 1970It impressively demonstrates the synergy between diplomatic designs and the design of diplomatic sites. The visual research is vast and striking, a capacious trove vibrantly rendered in color. Consequently, this good read provides a fresh perspective on both the history of international ideas in action and the idea of the Americas in (mainly) the United States." * Hispanic American Historical Review *
"Rigorously researched, imaginatively conceived, broadly situated, supported by a wealth of highly relevant illustrations, and replete with a stellar cast of architects. . . . Gonzalez cleverly decodes the dance between subject and object that accompanied the lengthy history of the Pan-American idea, and establishes the emerging centrality of modernism as a common ground for hemispheric identity, just as its most dramatic form of built expression threatens to be a militarized wall." * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *
"González draws from considerable archival research to show how an array of built expressions engage and ossify the ideological formation of Pan-Americanism. This work offers much to scholarship exploring recent cultural and political shifts in North America agitating for the construction of intra-American walls and the policing of borders." * Western American Literature *
"One of the gifts this book makes to the reader is the inclusion of a plethora of maps, photographs, posters, postcards, stamps, lithographs, and etchings. The visual contents of the book are thus as inviting as the critical analysis. We are able to literally see the development of an iconographic syntax and grammar of a visual language." * Revista Hispánica Moderna *
"Rigorously researched, imaginatively conceived, broadly situated, supported by a wealth of highly relevant illustrations, and replete with a stellar cast of architects. . . . Gonzalez cleverly decodes the dance between subject and object that accompanied the lengthy history of the Pan-American idea, and establishes the emerging centrality of modernism as a common ground for hemispheric identity, just as its most dramatic form of built expression threatens to be a militarized wall." * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *
"González draws from considerable archival research to show how an array of built expressions engage and ossify the ideological formation of Pan-Americanism. This work offers much to scholarship exploring recent cultural and political shifts in North America agitating for the construction of intra-American walls and the policing of borders." * Western American Literature *
"One of the gifts this book makes to the reader is the inclusion of a plethora of maps, photographs, posters, postcards, stamps, lithographs, and etchings. The visual contents of the book are thus as inviting as the critical analysis. We are able to literally see the development of an iconographic syntax and grammar of a visual language." * Revista Hispánica Moderna *
Robert Alexander Gonzalez is Director of the El Paso Program and Associate Professor of Architecture on the El Paso campus of the Texas Tech University College of Architecture. A historian and registered architect, Gonzalez is the founding editor of the bilingual journal Aula: Architecture & Urbanism in Las AmÉricas, which is devoted to the architecture, urbanism, and public art of Latin America and U.S. Latinos.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781477326671 |
| ISBN 10 | 1477326677 |
| Titel | Designing Pan-America |
| Autor | Robert Alexander González |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | University of Texas Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2022-09-13 |
| Seitenanzahl | 280 |
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