1. Prof. Juan Bruce-Novoa Dept. Spanish & Portuguese

2. México in Search of Itself 1810-21 Independence 1824-35 Political Chaos, i.e. 16 Presidents 1846-48 U.S. Invasion: Territory reduced 50% 1856-63 War of Reform 1863-7 French Invasion & Imposed Empire 1876-1910 Pax Porfiriana

5. CIVIL RELIGION: History as progress towards ideal fusion: Best of European & Indian: Mestizo Nation, the “natural” Logic of Evolution. USEABLE INDIAN PAST Aztec: ideal civilization lacking only Christianity. Surpassed through laws of “natural” Logic of Evolution.

6. WORLD FAIRISM International Stages for Performing Nationalism & Modernity New Orleans 1884Paris 1900

8. Cuauhtémoc

10. Staging Local Modernity: URBANISM & CITY PLANNING 1. Totalizing Jesuit theory of planned environment 2. A nation’s historical & moral qualities expressed in their products, especially architecture. 3. Epitome of civilized character  organization of social space: the city. 4. Urbanization to remedy inherited chaos. 5. City Planning of harmonious future.

11. Owen Buckingham Pemberton Smith

12. Washington D.C.

13. Victorian Gothic Revival Charles Barry &Augustus Welby Pugin. 1840-60. John Ruskin: The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) Moral superiority of Gothic; nostalgia for ideal Christian past

14. Georges-Eugène, Baron Haussmann Paris Urbanization, 1853-1870 Replace Medieval chaos with order. Facilitate movement & new sense of space and how to experience it. a. Wide streets: boulevards b. Monumental buildings at key sites c. New Technologies d. Sense of total organization = social order as product spacial orientation

15. Mexico City: 19 th Century 1793 1876 1892 1901 1909

16. Palace of Mining 1813

17. Classic Vs Gothic?

18. Parisian UrbanU.S. Urban

19. “El Caballito”: Site of Memory Monument to Carlos IV (1796-1803)

20. 1855 1870 18871887 1891

22. Residence in Colonial Roma 1890s 1904: Official Government Architectural Policy of Eclecticism: Meet Universal Structural needs with Unlimited Exterior Choice; Architect as Civil Servant to administer to the Common Good

23. Classical Non-Classical Building Construction Years Architectural Styles

25. School of Mines 1813 Secretariat of Communications and Public Works 1910

26. Central de Correos 1910

27. Cámara de Diputados, 1910

28. Monument to Cuauhtémoc 1887 Angel of Independence 1910 P A S E O De la R E F O R M A 1840 PARIS

29. 1908

30. Boulevard As Museum of National History

31. Family as National Allegory : Building a Future on Solid Present Celebrated in 1910 Independence Centenary

32. 1910 Centenary of Mexican Independence

34. 1910 La B o l a GOITIAGOITIA

35. Herrán´s Azuela´s Mexican Family in Family Underdogs