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1 Prof. Juan Bruce-Novoa Dept. Spanish & Portuguese

2 México in Search of Itself 1810-21 Independence 1824-35 Political Chaos, i.e. 16 Presidents 1846-48 U.S. Invasion: Territory reduced 50% 1856-63 War of Reform 1863-7 French Invasion & Imposed Empire 1876-1910 Pax Porfiriana

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5 CIVIL RELIGION: History as progress towards ideal fusion: Best of European & Indian: Mestizo Nation, the “natural” Logic of Evolution. USEABLE INDIAN PAST Aztec: ideal civilization lacking only Christianity. Surpassed through laws of “natural” Logic of Evolution.

6 WORLD FAIRISM International Stages for Performing Nationalism & Modernity New Orleans 1884Paris 1900

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8 Cuauhtémoc

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10 Staging Local Modernity: URBANISM & CITY PLANNING 1. Totalizing Jesuit theory of planned environment 2. A nation’s historical & moral qualities expressed in their products, especially architecture. 3. Epitome of civilized character  organization of social space: the city. 4. Urbanization to remedy inherited chaos. 5. City Planning of harmonious future.

11 Owen Buckingham Pemberton Smith

12 Washington D.C.

13 Victorian Gothic Revival Charles Barry &Augustus Welby Pugin. 1840-60. John Ruskin: The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) Moral superiority of Gothic; nostalgia for ideal Christian past

14 Georges-Eugène, Baron Haussmann Paris Urbanization, 1853-1870 Replace Medieval chaos with order. Facilitate movement & new sense of space and how to experience it. a. Wide streets: boulevards b. Monumental buildings at key sites c. New Technologies d. Sense of total organization = social order as product spacial orientation

15 Mexico City: 19 th Century 1793 1876 1892 1901 1909

16 Palace of Mining 1813

17 Classic Vs Gothic?

18 Parisian UrbanU.S. Urban

19 “El Caballito”: Site of Memory Monument to Carlos IV (1796-1803)

20 1855 1870 18871887 1891

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22 Residence in Colonial Roma 1890s 1904: Official Government Architectural Policy of Eclecticism: Meet Universal Structural needs with Unlimited Exterior Choice; Architect as Civil Servant to administer to the Common Good

23 Classical Non-Classical Building Construction Years Architectural Styles

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25 School of Mines 1813 Secretariat of Communications and Public Works 1910

26 Central de Correos 1910

27 Cámara de Diputados, 1910

28 Monument to Cuauhtémoc 1887 Angel of Independence 1910 P A S E O De la R E F O R M A 1840 PARIS

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30 Boulevard As Museum of National History

31 Family as National Allegory : Building a Future on Solid Present Celebrated in 1910 Independence Centenary

32 1910 Centenary of Mexican Independence

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34 1910 La B o l a GOITIAGOITIA

35 Herrán´s Azuela´s Mexican Family in Family Underdogs


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