Entrée principale:

Gonzalez, Robert Alexander, 1965-

Titre et auteur:

Designing Pan-America : U.S. architectural visions for the Western Hemisphere / Robert Alexander González.

Édition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Austin [Tex.] : University of Texas Press, 2011.

Description:

xix, 258 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.

Série(s):

Roger Fullington series in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Robert W. Rydell -- Preface: Entre autopista y puente -- 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 -- 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 -- 2. A rubber-fig tree for the patio: America's peace temple : The competition ; After the competition ; Transforming the "Latins" with patio and pool ; Nuestra Pan-América -- 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 -- 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.
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Includes a few mentions of Canada's participation to diverse competitions.
Dust jacket.

Résumé:

"This book will be an important contribution to the fields of architectural history and cultural studies. . . . At its strongest, it presents a wealth of information regarding the translation of the Pan-American spirit into architectural or built form. It offers us, through focused archival research, precise discussions and debates that lead not only to the formation of the architectural object but also to the very framing of the questions that the architects needed to pose to themselves in order to successfully meet these objectives. It provides, in short, hitherto unpublished and unknown data from the archives of the Pan-American Union and other sources important to this institution. In addition, the book has the rare ability to take this very specific information and connect it to other, broader developments in the United States and Latin America as well as to architectural culture." LUIS E. CARRANZA, Professor of Architecture, Roger Williams University.
"This is a significant contribution to the field of critical ̀orientalist' studies as applied to architecture. . . . This text breaks new scholarly ground by examining a topic that has never been proposed before: the construction of an ideological landscape involving Pan-Americanism." STEPHEN FOX, Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas and Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture, University of Houston and Rice University.
"With this engrossing story about how architects and planners sought to express an ideal of hemispheric unity in the built environment, Gonzalez brings a fresh approach to an old question: Do the Americas have a common history? Deeply researched, cohesive, and fabulously illustrated with images of architectural projects both completed and never realized, Designing Pan-America is required reading for the new, comparative American studies." KIRSTEN SILVA GRUESZ, Professor of Literature and Director, Latino Literary Cultures Project/Proyecto culturas literarias latinas, University of California, Santa Cruz --Book Jacket.

Ressources:
Table of contents and excerpt

ISBN:

9780292723252 (cl. ; alk. paper)
0292723253 (cl. ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

Pan-Americanism and architecture United States.
Architecture United States History 19th century.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture Political aspects United States.
Panaméricanisme et architecture États-Unis.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Architecture Political aspects.
Pan-Americanism and architecture.
International relations.
United States Relations Latin America.
Latin America Relations United States.
Latin America.
United States.

Classification/genre:

History.

Vedettes secondaires:

Roger Fullington series in architecture.

U.S. architectural visions for the Western Hemisphere

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 271694
Cote: BIB 204930
Statut: Disponible