Aris 3 Colonization and Architecture

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The Architecture of Power: From the Neoclassical to Modernism in the Architecture of Puerto Rico, 1900-1950

Enrique Vivoni-Farage

'The impact of the Spanish Revivals in Puerto Rico reflects the island's search for identity, direction and consistency during the years that followed the Spanish-American War. Within these two coexisting, but intrinsically conflicting influences, Puerto Ricans negotiated between two worlds.'

Antimonies of Colonization: Studies of Pittsburgh and Washington

Jacek Dominiczak

'Ethical solutions for the Colonist-Colonized relationship are warped by different cultural formulas that form different concepts of human civilizations and civilized acts. At this moment, what is personal becomes cultural, in a broader sense of colonization. Therefore, the problem of colonization requires another layer of interactive dialogues, this time between different cultural essences. These essences are primarily concepts and antimonies of time, space, and communication.'

California Dreaming: Sothwestern Influences in the Architecture of Miami

Stephen Schreiber

'The various California styles that blossomed early this century wistfully recognized the tumultuous natural, cultural, and geographic extremes that shaped the American Southwest. The Mission Style fantasized about simple adobe churches, the Pueblo Revival yearned for a structural marriage of Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo forms, the Spanish Colonial commemorated the area's Mediterranean heritage by inventing an architecture "more Spanish than Spain."'

On the Relation Between Culture and Environment

Amos Rapoport

'The designed environment now includes the whole earth because I take design to mean any modification by humans of the face of the earth. This is a much broader definition of design than is common, but it is an essential one. Designed environments include such human modifications as the planting or clearing of forests, the diversion of rivers and clearing of fields in certain patterns, the placement of roads and dams, of pubs and cities; roadside stands and second hand car lots are as much designed environments as glamorous office blocks and cultural centers; suburbs, nomadic camps or villages, and roadside strips are as much an act of design as architects' or planners' activities of dreaming up ideal cities or creating high-style buildings.'

Selections From 'Crossing the American Grain'

Grady Clay

Drop Zone Destination Arrest House Out There Nostalgia Farm The Kudzu