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"This book is a rich examination of the challenges and opportunities for a new generation of African architects to integrate the lessons of the past and create a future more responsive to the region's needs"--

Architecture, Colonial --- Architecture, Domestic --- Dwellings --- Vernacular architecture

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According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the island’s first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (cabildo) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the erection of a baroque monument in Havana’s central Plaza de Armas, which was reconfigured in 1828 by the addition of a neoclassical work, El Templete. Viewing the transformation of the Plaza de Armas from the new perspective of heritage studies, this book investigates how late colonial Cuban society narrated Havana’s founding to valorize Spanish imperial power and used the monuments to underpin a local sense of place and cultural authenticity, civic achievement, and social order. Paul Niell analyzes how Cubans produced heritage at the site of the symbolic ceiba tree by endowing the collective urban space of the plaza with a cultural authority that used the past to validate various place identities in the present. Niell’s close examination of the extant forms of the 1754 and 1828 civic monuments, which include academic history paintings, neoclassical architecture, and idealized sculpture in tandem with period documents and printed texts, reveals a “dissonance of heritage”—in other words, a lack of agreement as to the works’ significance and use. He considers the implications of this dissonance with respect to a wide array of interests in late colonial Havana, showing how heritage as a dominant cultural discourse was used to manage and even disinherit certain sectors of the colonial population.

Architecture, Colonial --- Cultural property --- Architecture and society --- Architecture and society --- History --- History --- Plaza de Armas (Havana, Cuba) --- History.

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"A brief but thought-provoking study of the reverse influence of Mexican architecture on that of Spain's during the colonial era. For example, the author says that the characteristic organization of prehispanic religious centers around large plazas, as seen at Palenque, Teotihuacan, and Chichenitza, was transferred first to Mexican and then to Spanish architecture. Also identifies Americanized architectural elements and decorative motifs in buildings in Murcia, Olivia, and in the Canary Islands. Contains a few photographs with drawings of mostly architectural details"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Architecture, Colonial --- Architecture, Modern --- Architecture --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Architecture, Spanish --- Modern architecture --- Influence. --- History --- Design and construction --- Architecture, Primitive

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"Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. ... studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World"--

Architecture, British --- Architecture, British colonial --- British --- British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- British colonial architecture --- Architecture, Colonial --- British architecture --- History. --- Material culture --- Great Britain --- Atlantic Ocean Region --- Atlantic Area --- Atlantic Region --- Colonies --- Civilization.

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Admirar un imponente monumento construido a lo largo de tres siglos y que ofrece logros artísticos es la actitud común de quienes desde la Plaza Mayor de la ciudad de México dirigen la vista hacia el costado norte. Preguntarse cuáles fueron las etapas principales de la construcción; cómo se obtuvieron los recursos para realizarla; de qué lugares salieron los operarios; quiénes fueron y de qué manera trabajaron en ella; de dónde provinieron los materiales y por qué vías fueron transportados; cómo soportaron ese colosal esfuerzo la economía y la sociedad de la Nueva España en los siglos XVI, XVII, XVIII y comienzos del XIX, ya representa un enfoque histórico que no muchos hacen suyo y que requiere una amplia documentación, pacientemente investigada, para obtener algunas respuestas, así sean parciales.

Religious architecture --- anno 1500-1599 --- Mexico [city] --- ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious --- Buildings. --- Architecture, Colonial. --- Architecture, Colonial --- Catedral de Mexico. --- Mexico --- Mexico City (Mexico) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Colonial architecture --- Colonial revival (Architecture) --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Architecture --- Mexico (City). --- Iglesia Metropolitana de México --- Santa Iglesia Metropolitana de México --- Cathedral of Mexico --- Mexico City Cathedral --- Catedral Metropolitana (Mexico City, Mexico) --- Catedral Metropolitana de México --- Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique (Country) --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- מקסיקו --- メキシコ --- Catedral de México. --- Built environment --- Architecture: religious buildings