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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gonzalez, Robert Alexander, 1965-

Series:

Roger Fullington series in architecture.

Roger Fullington series in architecture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pan-Americanism and architecture--United States.

Pan-Americanism and architecture.

Architecture--United States--History--19th century.

Architecture.

Architecture--United States--History--20th century.

Architecture--Political aspects--United States.

United States--Relations--Latin America.

United States.

Latin America--Relations--United States.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

U.S. architectural visions for the Western Hemisphere

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Coinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America. 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.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Pan-American Architecture Chronology""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter One. 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 Two. 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 Three. 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 Four. 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""

""Preface""""Introduction""; ""Chapter One""; ""Chapter Two""; ""Chapter Three""; ""Chapter Four""; ""Epilogue""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780292784949

0292784945

OCLC:

704290050