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Architectural temperance : Spain and Rome, 1700-1759
\"Architectural Temperance examines relations between Bourbon Spain and papal Rome (1700-1759) through the lens of cultural politics. With a focus on key Spanish architects sent to study in Rome by the Bourbon Kings, the book also discusses the establishment of a program of architectural education at the newly founded Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. Victor Deupi explores why a powerful nation like Spain would temper its own building traditions with the more cosmopolitan trends associated with Rome; often at the expense of its own national and regional traditions. Through the inclusion of previously unpublished documents and images that shed light on the theoretical debates which shaped eighteenth-century architecture in Rome and Madrid, Architectural Temperance provides an insight into 18th century Spanish architecture in English\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Dictator’s Dreamscape: How Architecture and Vision Built Machado’s Cuba and Invented Modern Havana
Dictator's Dreamscape: How Architecture and Vision Built Machado's Cuba and Invented Modern Havana by Joseph R. Hartman is reviewed.
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L’Avana déco: Arte cultura società
The Cuban historian and critic Alejandro de la Fuente is fond of citing José Veigas's disparaging claim that \"Cuba has a multitude of competent art critics and curators, but... [few with] any serious interest in history\" (see, for example, his review of Abigail McEwen, Revolutionary Horizons: Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba, NWiG 2018), and in that sense, Anselmi's new book is a very much needed and welcome breath of fresh air for historical scholarship on Havana's art, architecture, culture, and society in the first half of the twentieth century. [...]ĽAvana déco can be seen as two projects in one, the first being a richly illustrated and penetrating inquiry on the cultural life of Havana and the influence of Art Deco on all creative disciplines and levels of society. If Art Deco in Cuba has been largely overlooked or dismissed by historians and critics alike, then Alessandra Anselmi reminds us that the Art Deco architecture and monuments of Havana are in fact an integral part of the city and its marvelous cultural identity, and that they deserve our greatest attention, care, and respect.
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Architectural temperance: Spaniards and Rome, 1700--1758
The present study examines the ancient concept of temperance as a social virtue and as a characteristic of Greco-Roman classical architecture. Throughout the history of western art, temperance has not only been an expressed concern of architects and writers on architecture, but also has functioned as an attribute and “guiding spirit” of design. Temperance will be examined as an artistic theme, as a middle quality or characteristic of a building, as a principle of proportional moderation and adjustment, and finally as a synthesizing and generative component of architectural design. The specific context within which these interpretations of temperance will be considered is Spanish architecture from 1700 to 1758 during the reigns of Philip V and Ferdinand VI, the first Bourbon monarchs in Spain. More precisely, the study will focus on the establishment of a program of architectural education at the newly founded Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. Though Spanish architecture during this period has been the subject of a great deal of study there remain a number of lesser-known architects whose contributions have not been properly recognized. Similarly, while the origins and early development of the Spanish Academy have also been well researched, there remain entire tranches of its history, in particular the first group of Spanish pensioners in Rome, that are still undocumented. This inquiry then will focus on the period between the foundation of the Madrid Academy in 1744 and its inauguration in 1752, and the subsequent establishment of a program of education in Rome in 1758. A number of intriguing architects, books and buildings that characterize the multiple instances in which temperance was exercised will be explored to demonstrate the depth to which that virtue pervaded architectural theory and practice in eighteenth-century Spain. Moreover, the activities of the first Spanish pensioners in Rome will be examined in order to show why a nation such as Spain would temper her own building traditions with the larger trends of Roman art—both ancient and modern—rather than cultivate her own national and regional architectural traditions.
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Creating Meaningful Cities
Deupi reviews Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy by David Mayernik.
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