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Designing Pan-America: U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere

Designing Pan-America: U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere

González, Robert Alexander
Rydell, Robert

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ISBN10: 1477326677
ISBN13: 9781477326671
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Sep 13 2022
Pages: 280
Weight: 2.45
Height: 0.63 Width: 9.92 Depth: 9.92
Language: English

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.

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