Designing Pan America
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Designing Pan America
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Author : Robert Alexander González
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2011-01-15
Designing Pan America written by Robert Alexander González and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-15 with Architecture categories.
"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 --
Designing Pan America
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Author : Robert Alexander González
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2023-09-30
Designing Pan America written by Robert Alexander González and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-30 with Architecture categories.
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.
Colonial Phantoms
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Author : Dixa Ramírez
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2018-04-24
Colonial Phantoms written by Dixa Ramírez and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-24 with Social Science categories.
Winner, 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, given by the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies Association Winner, 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies Association Highlights the histories and cultural expressions of the Dominican people Using a blend of historical and literary analysis, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghosted—miscategorized or erased—the Dominican Republic since the nineteenth century despite its central place in the architecture of the Americas. Through a variety of Dominican cultural texts, from literature to public monuments to musical performance, it illuminates the Dominican quest for legibility and resistance. Dixa Ramírez places the Dominican people and Dominican expressive culture and history at the forefront of an insightful investigation of colonial modernity across the Americas and the African diaspora. In the process, she untangles the forms of free black subjectivity that developed on the island. From the nineteenth century national Dominican poet Salomé Ureña to the diasporic writings of Julia Alvarez, Chiqui Vicioso, and Junot Díaz, Ramírez considers the roles that migration, knowledge production, and international divisions of labor have played in the changing cultural expression of Dominican identity. In doing so, Colonial Phantoms demonstrates how the centrality of gender, race, and class in the nationalisms and imperialisms of the West have profoundly impacted the lives of Dominicans. Ultimately, Ramírez considers how the Dominican people negotiate being left out of Western imaginaries and the new modes of resistance they have carefully crafted in response.
The Routledge Handbook Of Infrastructure Design
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Author : Joseph Heathcott
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-01-31
The Routledge Handbook Of Infrastructure Design written by Joseph Heathcott and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-31 with Architecture categories.
The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design explores the multifaceted nature of infrastructure through the global lens of architectural history. Infrastructure holds the world together. Yet even as it connects some people, it divides others, sorting access and connectivity through varied social categories such as class, race, gender, and citizenship. This collection examines themes across broad spans of time, raises questions of linkage and scale, investigates infrastructure as phenomenon and affect, and traces the interrelation of aesthetics, technology, and power. With a diverse range of contributions from 33 scholars, this volume presents new research from regions including South and East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, North America, Western Europe, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. This extraordinary group of authors bring close attention to the materials, functions, and aesthetics of infrastructure systems as these unfold within their cultural and political contexts. They provide not only new knowledge of specific artifacts, such as the Valens Aqueduct, the Hong Kong waterfront, and the Pan-American Highway, but also new ways of conceptualizing, studying, and understanding infrastructure as a worlding process. The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design provides richly textured, thoroughly evidenced, and imaginatively drawn arguments that deepen our understanding of the role of infrastructure in creating the world in which we live. It is a must-read for academics and students.
Proceeding Of The Vi International Ship Design Naval Engineering Congress Cidin And Xxvi Pan American Congress Of Naval Engineering Maritime Transportation And Port Engineering Copinaval
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Author : Vice Admiral Jorge Enrique Carreño Moreno
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-03-10
Proceeding Of The Vi International Ship Design Naval Engineering Congress Cidin And Xxvi Pan American Congress Of Naval Engineering Maritime Transportation And Port Engineering Copinaval written by Vice Admiral Jorge Enrique Carreño Moreno and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-10 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book presents the proceedings of CIDIN and COPINAVAL. The papers present the development of the navy, maritime and riverine industry, contributing to the scientific and technological progress and development in the sector. In 2019 the congresses occurred in Cartagena, Colombia, a reference for science and technology innovation for Latin-American naval industry.
Douglas Snelling
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Author : Davina Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-01
Douglas Snelling written by Davina Jackson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-01 with Architecture categories.
Douglas Burrage Snelling (1916–85) was one of Britain’s significant emigré architects and designers. Born in Kent and educated in New Zealand, he became one of Australia’s leading mid-century architects, of luxury residences and commercial buildings, and a trend-setting designer of furniture, interiors and landscapes. This is the first comprehensive study of Snelling’s pan-Pacific life, works and trans-disciplinary significance. It provides a critical examination of this controversial modernist, revealing him to be a colourful and talented protagonist who led antipodean interpretations of American, especially Wrightian and southern Californian, architecture, design and lifestyle innovations.
Designing Tomorrow
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Author : Robert W. Rydell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Designing Tomorrow written by Robert W. Rydell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Century of Progress International Exposition categories.
Based on an exhibition held at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC, October 2010-July 2011.
Design
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
Design written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Decoration and ornament categories.
Modeling And Design Of Flexible Pavements And Materials
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Author : Dallas N. Little
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-09-25
Modeling And Design Of Flexible Pavements And Materials written by Dallas N. Little and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This textbook lays out the state of the art for modeling of asphalt concrete as the major structural component of flexible pavements. The text adopts a pedagogy in which a scientific approach, based on materials science and continuum mechanics, predicts the performance of any configuration of flexible roadways subjected to cyclic loadings. The authors incorporate state-of the-art computational mechanics to predict the evolution of material properties, stresses and strains, and roadway deterioration. Designed specifically for both students and practitioners, the book presents fundamentally complex concepts in a clear and concise way that aids the roadway design community to assimilate the tools for designing sustainable roadways using both traditional and innovative technologies.
The Pan Am Building And The Shattering Of The Modernist Dream
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Author : Meredith L. Clausen
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2005
The Pan Am Building And The Shattering Of The Modernist Dream written by Meredith L. Clausen and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Architecture categories.
How a building and the reaction to it signaled the end of an era; the transformation of architectural practice in the context of New York City culture and politics.