Living Architecture: Ancient Mexican
Author | : Henri Stierlin |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Indian architecture |
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Author | : Henri Stierlin |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Indian architecture |
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Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Henri Stierlin |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Logan Wagner |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-04-04 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 029274983X |
The plaza has been a defining feature of Mexican urban architecture and culture for at least 4,000 years. Ancient Mesoamericans conducted most of their communal life in outdoor public spaces, and today the plaza is still the public living room in every Mexican neighborhood, town, and city—the place where friends meet, news is shared, and personal and communal rituals and celebrations happen. The site of a community’s most important architecture—church, government buildings, and marketplace—the plaza is both sacred and secular space and thus the very heart of the community. This extensively illustrated book traces the evolution of the Mexican plaza from Mesoamerican sacred space to modern public gathering place. The authors led teams of volunteers who measured and documented nearly one hundred traditional Mexican town centers. The resulting plans reveal the layers of Mesoamerican and European history that underlie the contemporary plaza. The authors describe how Mesoamericans designed their ceremonial centers as embodiments of creation myths—the plaza as the primordial sea from which the earth emerged. They discuss how Europeans, even though they sought to eradicate native culture, actually preserved it as they overlaid the Mesoamerican sacred plaza with the Renaissance urban concept of an orthogonal grid with a central open space. The authors also show how the plaza’s historic, architectural, social, and economic qualities can contribute to mainstream urban design and architecture today.
Author | : Marion Shapiro |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Lawrence A. Herzog |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780801866432 |
After reviewing three key period in Mexico's three-thousand-year-old architectural past -indigenous, Spanish colonial, and modern- urban planning scholar Herzog focuses on the border territories of northern Mexico and southwestern United States, particularly in California. He explores the architectural future of interdependent neighbors who share a history, an economy and a landscape.
Author | : Paul Gendrop |
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Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Verna Cook Shipway |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publishing |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2012-02-16 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1589796446 |
Houses of Mexico delves into the roots of the bold yet elegant Mexican style, illustrated with many photographs from Spain and Portugal reflecting the Moorish influence. In addition to extensive coverage of the architecture of the houses, the book shows other spatial and decorative elements, including iron gates and grilles that give an atmosphere of seclusion; stairways that seem to grow out of the walls without any support; and old paintings, combs, ceramics, and character figures used in festivals, as well as ancient pre-Columbian figurines.
Author | : Karen Witynski |
Publisher | : Gibbs Smith |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2008-02-25 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1423612787 |
Invite the rich colors, natural textures, and romantic beauty of Mexico into your home. With a vast architectural legacy spanning four centuries, Mexican haciendas express a rugged romantic beauty and compelling sense of history. Today, the hacienda's graceful arcaded silhouette, grand-scale proportions, carved-stone ornament, rich colors and natural textures have become an ever-increasing influence for architects and designers worldwide. Hacienda Style invites you into Mexico's artful, hacienda havens resplendent with private collections of colonial and contemporary art, antiques and found relics. Witynski and Carr's antiques and accents have appeared in national magazines, television programs and feature films, including Architectural Digest, Western Interiors, HGTV's Takeover My Makeover, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and The Alamo. Other books by the same authors: Mexican Country Style, The New Hacienda, Casa Adobe, Adobe Details, Casa Yucatan, and Mexican Details.