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2018, La Ciudad de México a través de los siglos. "Itinerario 3"
"A rich monumental architectural history of Mexico City. A work of collective character based on primary research on each of the monuments and important sites of the city. It shows the history of its constructions and remodeling, the artistic movements that are reflected in them and their various uses over time. The exterior of the buildings is analyzed and, when appropriate, the interior. The information is organized in 19 itineraries. The first 5 cover the old part of the city: The Plaza Mayor (Plaza de la Constitución-Zócalo), the National Palace, the Cathedral, the Tabernacle, the Templo Mayor, the former City Hall, as well as the four original quadrants. The 14 remaining itineraries by major axes of the city. It highlights the important buildings, the palaces, monuments and houses."
Atlantis | Magazine for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture
Infrastructural Strata: Exploring the Past and Present of Mexico City2018 •
Trabalho realizado em 2014 e publicado em: http://arthistoryunifesp.wix.com/mexico#!bio/cee5
2021 •
This book presents a case study of one of Latin America’s most important and symbolic spaces, the Zócalo in Mexico City, weaving together historic events and corresponding morphological changes in the urban environment. It poses questions about how the identity of a place emerges, how it evolves and, why does it change? Mexico City’s Zócalo: A History of a Constructed Spatial Identity utilizes the history of a specific place, the Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución), to explain the emergence and evolution of Mexican identities over time. Starting from the pre-Hispanic period to present day, the work illustrates how the Zócalo reveals spatial manifestations as part of the larger socio-cultural zeitgeist. By focusing on the history of changes in spatial production – what Henri Lefebvre calls society’s "secretions" – Bross traces how cultural, social, economic, and political forces shaped the Zócalo’s spatial identity and, in turn, how the Zócalo shaped and fostered new identities in return. It will be a fascinating read for architectural and urban historians investigating Latin America.
Bulletin of Latin American Research
Architecture as Revolution: Episodes in the History of Modern Mexico - by Carranza, Luis E2012 •
MOTION: MIGRATIONS -- PROCEEDINGS OF THE 35TH WORLD CONGRESS OF ART HISTORY (2022)
From Mexico to Spain: the constitution of Plazas Mayores and the Amerindian roots2023 •
The Mexico City main square, officially named the Constitution Square, popularly known as Zócalo, is a potent political and urban cultural space delimited by a representative power architecture. It is also a stage for artistic performances and socio-political demonstrations. However, its configuration is based on Mesoamerican and Iberian urban traditions, which became a unique transcultural experience. Thus, the monumental colonial Mexican Plaza Mayor, apowercenterconstitutedinthefirsthalfofthe16thcentury, anticipated, in material and symbolic aspects, the Modern Spanish Plazas Mayores, formed from the second half of the 16thcentury as an iconic monument of imperial order. This article aims to demonstrate the Mexico City Plaza Mayor's transcultural aspects and connections with the Modern Spanish Plazas Mayores project, focusing on the Amerindian contributions to Western culture.
This paper reflects how urban modernity was adopted in Mexico through a movement lead by the mexican architect Carlos Contreras (892-1970).
La construcción de la Catedral de México sobre suelos extraordinariamente blandos fue un reto formidable en 1573, año en que comienza la obra. Sus creadores aprovecharon la experiencia que los aztecas habían obtenido con la edificación del Templo Mayor en donde las etapas constructivas superpuestas obedecían a la tradición mesoamericana de sobreponer pirámides nuevas sobre las antiguas durante las fiestas del Fuego Nuevo pero también satisfacían la necesidad práctica de sobreponer etapas constructivas a sus edificaciones con el fin implícito de ocultar las deformaciones que se producían en ellas. El alarife Claudio de Arciniega concibió una cimentación notable para la Catedral pero aún así, los hundimientos que se produjeron durante el levantamiento del templo obligaron a los otros maestros constructores que lo sucedieron, a integrar ingenios arquitectónicos para disimular los desajustes. En 1630 Juan Gómez de Trasmonte levantó las bóvedas y el crucero. A Luis Gómez de Trasmonte se le encomendó en 1656 construir la cúpula central. Tuvo dudas sobre la capacidad de carga de las columnas del crucero y propuso ensancharlas pero no se realizó esa ampliación. Lorenzo Rodríguez construyó el Sagrario a partir de 1749 y adoptó el mismo sistema de cimentación, aunque con menor calidad. La construcción de las torres la inició en 1780 Damián Ortiz de Castro quien decidió reparar la capilla de San Miguel, hoy de los Ángeles, para que ésta sostuviera a la torre poniente. La Catedral se concluyó en 1813 bajo la dirección de Manuel Tolsá, quien armonizó el edificio y embelleció la cúpula. El dilatado proceso de construcción tomó 240 años.
2021 •
Architecture in permanent transformation is the starting point of this article, focused on the interaction between material and social aspects of a case study on modern Mexican housing, observing the building's life in relation to its inhabitants. The Multifamily Apartment Building for Teachers (Multifamiliar para maestros), a faculty housing building at the UNAM campus, is a mid-twentieth-century experimental housing project, developed at the beginning of Mexico City´s densification. Today it is registered in UNESCO's World Heritage Sites. The case study sheds some important insights into the transformations of a spatial modern utopia facing inhabitants' needs. Numerous differences were detected between the original idea behind the building's architecture and the reality of its users today, revealing not only the ambiguous nature of the building but also problems derived from the country's accelerated modernization. The results show contrasting approaches of the intermediate space between the building's conception, and the constant process of becoming a home, where the scope of its habitability is negotiated.
2018 •
Benjamin A. Bross University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Abstract: The change in elected government of the Federal District (Distrito Federal), from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to that of the center-left PRD party, was of utmost importance for the evolution of the Zócalo’s representative space. Using Lefebvre’s semiotic tools for the analyses of spatial production through the prism of Cultural Geography and Social History, this article studies one of Mexico’s most important symbolic spaces: The Plaza de la Constitución, colloquially known as the Zócalo. With the ascension of new local and federal governments, the plaza began a process of transformation from a space controlled by the State for the State’s demonstrations of power, to an open, inclusive space for all users. As of 1997 diverse cultural, recreational, and mass movement events began to be promoted and experienced on the Plaza. This article explains the process by which the Zócalo began to chang...
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Conservation of architectural heritage and urban contexts - changes and debates in the postwar decades in Mexico2021 •
At the end of World War II, the world started to change rapidly, leading to the need to rethink concepts and approaches in the field of conservation. The massive destruction generated during the war, mainly in Europe, was one of the initial concerns. However, especially for historical centers and other urban settlements, other challenges, caused by the pressures of population growth, rural migration and rapidly changing modes of transportation, soon arose. To address this situation, the international institutions founded in the post-war period joined forces to encourage and support the formation of conservation centers and, above all, specialized training courses to prepare the professionals needed for the care and protection of heritage. This text reviews the international context and the existing situation in Mexico in order to analyze some of the approaches proposed for the conservation of built heritage and historic centers during the 1960s and the 1980s.
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A Governação "Sombra" no Espaço Marítimo Angolano
Francisca Nassoma Bentral-Baldacchino (2024), A Governação "Sombra" no Espaço Marítimo Angolano, Almedina. Prefácio de Armando Marques Guedes2024 •
American Journal of Qualitative Research
Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis and Coding with QualCoderBulletin of Latin American Research
Change from Above or Pressure from Below? The Diffusion of Cannabis Reform in Latin America2024 •
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery
Surgical stabilization of flail chest after trauma: when, why and how to do it?2020 •
Acta Chromatographica
Simultaneous quantification of related substances of ezetimibe and simvastatin in combined dosage form using a novel stability-indicating liquid chromatographic method2018 •
2022 •
2013 •
Runas. Journal of Education and Culture
Subjetividad y organización en Historia y consciencia de clase de Georg Lukács