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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Wagner, Logan (1951-....)
Box, Hal (1929-....)
Morehead, Susan Kline
Titre(s) : Ancient origins of the Mexican plaza [Texte imprimé] : from primordial sea to public space / Logan Wagner, Hal Box, Susan Kline Morehead
Publication : Austin : University of Texas Press,, [2013]
Description matérielle : pxvi, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Collection : Roger Fullington series in architecture
Lien à la collection : Roger Fullington series in architecture
Comprend : Introduction ; Chapter One. The primordial sea: forming open space in Mesoamerica
; Mesoamerican concept of space ; Mountains and Altepetis ; Caves, quatrefoils,
and sunken courts ; Types of open space in Mesoamerica ; Triad centering ; U-shaped
courts ; Quadrangles ; Quincunx: symbol of the cosmos ; Ballcourts ; The sunken
court of Teopantecuanitlán ; The Dallas plaque: a cosmogram
Chapter Two. Forming Spanish towns in Mesoamerican culture ; People and ideas ;
The invasion ; The Europeans making contact ; European plazas in the early sixteenth
century ; Origins of the plaza ; Building new world towns ; Types of towns ; First
acts and encounters ; Laws of the Indies ; Conversion ; Quincunx patios ; Relaciones
geográficas
Chapter Three. Sixteenth-century communal open spaces (five hundred years later)
; Caves and crevices ; Amecameca, State of México ; Zoquizoquipan, Hidalgo ; Valladolid,
Yucatán ; Quincunxial arrangements ; Atlatlahuacan, Morelos ; Huejotzingo, Puebla
; Huaquechula, Puebla ; Zacualpan de Amilpas, Morelos ; Terraced mountains ; Molango,
Hidalgo ; Achiutla, Oaxaca ; Yanhuitlán, Oaxaca ; Sunken courts ; Tepoztlan, Morelos
; Tochimilco, Puebla ; Calpan, Puebla ; Ballcourts and bullrings ; Villa Díaz Ordaz,
Oaxaca ; Tlanalapa, Hidalgo ; Tepeapulco, Hidalgo ; Open space ensembles ; Tlaxiaco,
Oaxaca ; Tlacolula, Oaxaca ; Otumba de Gómez Farías, State of México ; Tlacochahuaya,
Oaxaca ; Tepeaca, Puebla ; Etla, Oaxaca ; Bishop Quiroga's utopias in Michoacán
; Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán ; Pátzcuaro, Michoacán ; Santa Fe de la Laguna, Michoacán
; Erongarícuaro, Michoacán ; Angahuan, Michoacán ; Visible overlays and deliberate
alignments ; Mitla, Oaxaca ; Hacienda Xaaga, Oaxaca ; Teposcolula, Oaxaca ; Coixtlahuaca,
Oaxaca ; Epazoyucan, Hidalgo ; The Yucatán Experience ; Chapels, Yucatán ; Tibolón,
Yucatán ; Izamal, Yucatán
Chapter Four. Origins and evolution
Epilogue: Plazas in the twenty-first century ; The San Miguel example ; Qualities
of successful plazas ; Sprawl and the American myth ; Appendix. Measured drawings:
plans of towns.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index
"The plaza has been a defining feature of Mexican urban architecture and culture for
at least 4,000 years. Ancient Mesoamericans conducted most of their communal life
in outdoor public spaces, and today the plaza is still the public living room in every
Mexican neighborhood, town, and city--the place where friends meet, news is shared,
and personal and communal rituals and celebrations happen. The site of a community's
most important architecture--church, government buildings, and marketplace--the plaza
is both sacred and secular space and thus the very heart of the community.. This extensively
illustrated book traces the evolution of the Mexican plaza from Mesoamerican sacred
space to modern public gathering place. The authors led teams of volunteers who measured
and documented nearly one hundred traditional Mexican town centers. The resulting
plans reveal the layers of Mesoamerican and European history that underlie the contemporary
plaza. The authors describe how Mesoamericans designed their ceremonial centers as
embodiments of creation myths--the plaza as the primordial sea from which the earth
emerged. They discuss how Europeans, even though they sought to eradicate native culture,
actually preserved it as they overlaid the Mesoamerican sacred plaza with the Renaissance
urban concept of an orthogonal grid with a central open space. The authors also show
how the plaza's historic, architectural, social, and economic qualities can contribute
to mainstream urban design and architecture today." ; "Spanning several thousand years
of history, this book explores how sacred open space in Mesoamerican communities evolved
into the familiar plaza at the heart of most Mexican towns and cities. Reveals that
while the Spanish sought to eradicate Mesoamerican culture by building over their
cities, they actually preserved the form and usage of the Mesoamerican plaza because
Spanish cities were also laid out with a central open space. The authors show how,
even today, the Mexican plaza has elements that can be traced back to ancient Mesoamerican
culture and, as the site of the church or cathedral, remains a sacred, as well as
secular, space"
Sujet(s) : Places -- Mexique -- Histoire
Espaces publics -- Mexique -- Histoire
Architecture et société -- Mexique -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780292719163 (hardback). - ISBN 0292719167 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43551493z
Notice n° :
FRBNF43551493
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