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Prof. Juan Bruce-Novoa Dept. Spanish & Portuguese

Prof. Juan Bruce-Novoa Dept. Spanish & Portuguese. M éxico in Search of Itself. LOCAL. 1810-21 Independence 1829 Spanish Invasion 1824-35 Political Chaos, i.e. 16 Presidents Texas Rebellion 1846-48 U.S. Invasion: Territory reduced 50% 1856-63 War of Reform 1863-7 French Invasion

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Prof. Juan Bruce-Novoa Dept. Spanish & Portuguese

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

  2. México in Search of Itself LOCAL 1810-21 Independence 1829 Spanish Invasion 1824-35 Political Chaos, i.e. 16 Presidents • Texas Rebellion 1846-48 U.S. Invasion: Territory reduced 50% 1856-63 War of Reform 1863-7 French Invasion & Imposed Empire 1876-1910 Pax Porfiriana Global

  3. Mexican National Character National Style National Production National Consumption Self-Representation Spanish . . . US Colonial Character International Style Foreign Marketing Foreign Production 6. Misrepresentation LOCAL Global Modernization Models of Modernity

  4. Josephus Arias Huarte Jean Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  5. Jacques Louis David Rodrigo Gutiérrez José Obregón

  6. 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.

  7. Elite Native Culture: Aztec Empire 2. Elite European: Greco-Roman/ Spanish Enlightened Liberal, Cosmopolitan Positivism Heroic Protagonists Cuauhtémoc: native nobility Hidalgo: Independence Juárez: Liberty Díaz: Peace & Progress Porfirian Mexican Evolutionary Logic

  8. WORLD FAIRISMInternational Stages for Performing Nationalism & Modernity New Orleans 1884 Paris 1900

  9. PARIS 1889

  10. Cuauhtémoc

  11. 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.

  12. Owen Buckingham Smith Pemberton

  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. 1793-1970 Washington D.C. 1792-1818

  15. 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

  16. Mexico City: 19th Century 1793 1876 1892 1901 1909

  17. Palacio de Minería 1813

  18. Classic Vs Gothic?

  19. Parisian Urban U.S. Urban

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

  21. 1855 1870 1887 1891

  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. Architectural Styles Classical Building Construction Non-Classical Years Years

  24. School of Mines 1813 Secretariat of Communications and Public Works 1910

  25. Central de Correos 1910

  26. Cámara de Diputados, 1910

  27. Monument to Cuauhtémoc 1887 P A S E O De la R E F O R M A PARIS 1840 Angel ofIndependence 1910

  28. 1908

  29. Boulevard As Museum of National History

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

  31. 1910 Centenary of Mexican Independence

  32. 1910 G O I T I A La B o l a

  33. Herrán´s Azuela´sMexican Family in Family Underdogs

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