Designing Pan-America
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2667-1 (ISBN)
Late in the nineteenth century, U.S. commercial and political interests began eyeing the countries of Latin America as plantations, farms, and mines to be accessed by new shipping lines and railroads. As their desire to dominate commerce and trade in the Western Hemisphere grew, these U.S. interests promoted the concept of "Pan-Americanism" to link the United States and Latin America and called on U.S. architects to help set the stage for Pan-Americanism's development. Through international expositions, monuments, and institution building, U.S. architects translated the concept of a united Pan-American sensibility into architectural or built form. In the process, they also constructed an artificial ideological identity—a fictional Pan-America peopled with imaginary Pan-American citizens, the hemispheric loyalists who would support these projects and who were the presumed benefactors of this presumed architecture of unification.
Designing Pan-America presents the first examination of the architectural expressions of Pan-Americanism. Concentrating on U.S. architects and their clients, Robert Alexander González demonstrates how they proposed designs reflecting U.S. presumptions and projections about the relationship between the United States and Latin America. This forgotten chapter of American architecture unfolds over the course of a number of international expositions, ranging from the North, Central, and South American Exposition of 1885–1886 in New Orleans to Miami's unrealized Interama fair and San Antonio's HemisFair '68 and encompassing the Pan American Union headquarters building in Washington, D.C. and the creation of the Columbus Memorial Lighthouse in the Dominican Republic.
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.
Foreword by Robert W. Rydell
Preface: Entre autopista y puente
Acknowledgments
Pan-American Architecture Chronology
Introduction: Entering Pan-America
Mapping the Sources of the Pan-American Idea
The Pan-American Citizen
Equal Representation for All Americans
Chapter 1. The Birth of Pan-American Architecture: Hemispheric Fairs, 1884-1901
Logical Pan-Americanism at Two New Orleans Expositions
Before the White City: Quadricentennial Visions for 1892
The Pan-American Exposition in an American Power City, 1895-1901
Chapter 2. A Rubber-Fig Tree for the Patio: America's Peace Temple, 1907-1913
The Competition
After the Competition
Transforming the "Latins" with Patio and Pool
Nuestra Pan-América
Chapter 3. In Search of Modern Pan-America: The Columbus Memorial Lighthouse
Kelsey's Perfect Competition
Pan-America's Heritage Is Explored in Stage One
Kelsey Orchestrates the Second Stage
Gleave's Transformative Cross
Building the Unwelcomed Columbus Memorial
Chapter 4. Gateway to the Americas: Dreaming Interama, HemisFair Living
Interama and the Inter-American Subject
HemisFair '68 and New Liaisons with Las Américas
The Last Hemispheric Fairs
Epilogue: Enter Here: The Great Pan-American Way
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.09.2022 |
|---|---|
| Einführung | Robert Rydell |
| Zusatzinfo | 204 photos, 1 map, 6 tables |
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 254 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 1107 g |
| Themenwelt | Technik ► Architektur |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-2667-7 / 1477326677 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-2667-1 / 9781477326671 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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