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.
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.
Robert Alexander Gonzalez is Director of the El Paso Program and Associate Professor of Architecture on the El Paso campus of the Texas Tech University College of Architecture. A historian and registered architect, Gonzalez is the founding editor of the bilingual journal Aula: Architecture & Urbanism in Las Américas, which is devoted to the architecture, urbanism, and public art of Latin America and U.S. Latinos.
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1. Foreword by Robert W. Rydell 2. Preface: Entre autopista y puente 3. Acknowledgments 4. Pan-American Architecture Chronology 5. Introduction: Entering Pan-America * Mapping the Sources of the Pan-American Idea * The Pan-American Citizen * Equal Representation for All Americans 6. Chapter 1. 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 7. Chapter 2. 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 8. Chapter 3. 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 9. Chapter 4. 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 10. Epilogue: Enter Here: The Great Pan-American Way 11. Notes 12. Bibliography 13. Index
1. Foreword by Robert W. Rydell 2. Preface: Entre autopista y puente 3. Acknowledgments 4. Pan-American Architecture Chronology 5. Introduction: Entering Pan-America * Mapping the Sources of the Pan-American Idea * The Pan-American Citizen * Equal Representation for All Americans 6. Chapter 1. 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 7. Chapter 2. 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 8. Chapter 3. 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 9. Chapter 4. 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 10. Epilogue: Enter Here: The Great Pan-American Way 11. Notes 12. Bibliography 13. Index
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