Architecture has the ability to remark and reflect any region, give a feeling and a sense of a place, and present thoughts and creativity. Across the world, especially in the United States, there are many cities that are distinguished by its architecture and unique styles: The skyline of New York City is defined by it’s skyscrapers; San Francisco’s mixture of Victorian and modern colored houses; New Orleans’ iconic Creole townhouses; and Miami’s modernist architecture. Los Angeles, San Diego and some of the cities in the same region are no different from the previous appreciable cities all around America. These cities are located in the state of California which is on the West Coast. They share some significant architectural characteristics …show more content…
It is a combination of details from various styles such as, Spanish Baroque, Moorish Revival, Churrigueresque; which is a Spanish approach of architectural decoration on the façade of buildings. It aroused in San Diego, during the Panama-California Exposition 1915 by architect Bertram Goodhue. The exposition took place in Balboa Park, and Goodhue was the lead architect, taking over from Irving Gill, with Carleton Winslow Sr. and Lloyd Wright. it became “Known for its sculptured fantasy buildings, which helped to popularize the Spanish Colonial Revival style for many decades” (Marshall, 2007) . The Spanish Colonial Revival had two phases, one before the exposition which was called Mission Revival, and another one which first appeared during the exposition in Balboa …show more content…
The first side includes the California Building and Tower , and on the other side, The Museum of Man, and the Sr. Francis Chapel. The building has a richly ornamented front piece, and a big dome fully decorated in yellow, blue, green and white handmade tiles, the domes had geometric shapes such as squares and diamonds shapes, including an octagram (eight sided star) . The dome was divided equally by six stone arches, and on top of it there is a small mini tower with pointed finials and six vertical arched windows, and a cross on the very top. next to it the California Tower and the Museum of Man which is the main building in Balboa Park. During the exposition the Museum of Man, was recognized and noted by most architects as the finest example of Spanish Colonial Revival throughout the United States. The building was 200 ft tall, and the façade was excessively ornamented in a beautiful way, and in a mixture of different styles including Gothic, Baroque, Churrigueresque to illustrate the appearance of a Spanish Colonial church. The facade was made of stone, and it did not include usual ornamentation, but sculpted historical figures of remarkable and significant people mostly were
Reference Page Spanish Conquest of the new world: Walbert. D (n/d.) Spain and America: From Reconquest to Conquest. Learn NC Retrieved from: http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-twoworlds/1677
Due to the different natural resources (ranging from beaver fur to medicinal herbs) available in the colonies, the patterns of interaction greatly varied between the European settlers and the Native Americans depending on the location. Before 1775, in New York, the interactions centered primarily around trading fur or war weapons. However, although the settlers and natives in the New Spain region traded herbs for manufactured herbal medicine, the settlers mainly focused their time on spreading their religion and starting mission trails throughout California. In the eighteenth century, the interactions between the Europeans settlers and the Native Americans in New York and New Spain developed in the same manner overtime since every group wanted to strengthen their regions politically and economically by creating alliances and promoting trade to increase their mother country’s global footprint; however, they did differ due to how the Europeans in the west mainly came to North America in pursuit of independence while the settlers of New Spain wanted to spread their religion and the Spanish Empire to the new lands.
After the war, most German observers still failed to read the results properly. They claimed that the Americans had not faced a serious opponent who would have exposed her military weaknesses. Professionals doubted that Americans would be able to fight in a battle against a European rival. Papers had said many statements during this. Europeans’ misunderstanding and mistrust of volunteer armies afflicted their judgment when it came to the Spanish-American War.
There were four main revolutions taken place and they were known as the Atlantic Revolutions including the North American Revolution from 1775 to 1787, French Revolution from 1789 to 1815, Haitian Revolution from 1791 to 1804, and Spanish Revolution from 1810 to 1825. These revolutions arise due to the oppression of people towards the political issues and injustice to the different class of people in the society. Also, the revolutions originated to the weak political authorities, especially the ruler. For the American Revolutions, the Americans opposed the political issues and the weak government.
Anglo-American colonization in Mexican Texas took place between 1821 and 1835. Because Spain had first opened Texas to Anglo Americans in 1820, less than one year before Mexico achieved its independence. Its traditional policy forbade foreigners in its territory, but Spain was unable to persuade its own citizens to move to remote and sparsely populated Texas. There were only three settlements in the province, small towns with outlying ranches. The missions near the latter two, once expected to be nucleus communities, because they had been or were being secularized, while those near Nacogdoches had been closed since the 1770s.
In both the centres of Olmec civilization, at San Lorenzo and then La Venta, numerous large clay platforms are raised. At their top there are believed to have been temples, or perhaps sometimes palaces, built of wood. The concept of climbing up to a place of religious significance becomes the central theme of pre-Columbian architecture. Its natural conclusion is the pyramid, with steps by which priests and pilgrims climb to the top (unlike the smooth-sided tomb pyramids of Egypt). La Venta initiates this long American tradition too.
After the influx of the Spanish in the seventeenth century, much of the native population yielded to illness. How did the ones who survived find success and what did the Spanish do to develop the county? The Natives ended up moving away or intermarried with the Europeans. The Spanish increased the population by giving fifty-nine leagues of ground on the north bank of the Rio Grande (including all of the section of Brownsville) to José Salvador de la Garza in 1781.
After the Civil War, the second Industrial Revolution swept the US and the country began to flourish. Baring the economic prosperity, many Americans grew the urge to expand overseas. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, foreign policy was the hot topic among citizens and government officials. There were two sides to the argument; some Americans pushed for the aggressive foreign policy while others favored for the US to keep their nose out of foreign affairs. Notable figures in government took bold stands for and against foreign affairs.
The Cubans wanted independence from Spain because they believe that they were under control of an imperial master, also foreign affairs such as the Wilson-Gorman Tarriff sent Cuban economy spiraling into turmoil. The Wilson-Gorman Tarriff Act put restrictions on sugar imports to the United States to meet the congressional demands for free sugar. Sadly, this hurt Cubans because they relied heavily on producing and selling sugar to the United States. The on rising violence of the Cuban rebellion between Spain and Cuba during 1898 lead to president McKinley trying to get Spain to agree to a diplomatic solution but ended up requesting American intervention when the situation worsened. This called for naval intervention so the government sent over
Events shape the world and the people that live within it. They can cause improvements in the quality of life that people have, harm people, and either help create alliances or throw them off balance. However, occurrences are not evenly distributed throughout time. Thus, some years have a more significant and lasting impact than others. One of these years is 1570.
Spain had confidence that their culture was superior than any other beliefs. If anybody didn’t accept their religion as that, then those people were uncivilized “heathens”. This was the reasoning that justified their colonization of the New World. The Spanish travelled to the New World with the primary goal of “saving” the Indians. By converting them to Christianity the Indians could gain freedom, according to them.
Matthew Restall, the author of “Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest,” outlines some of the myths associated with the Spanish conquest and how they have developed over time. One obvious theme that Restall incorporated throughout the entire book was of course myths during the Spanish Conquest, as the book title states. One thing that Restall does, that goes along with the theme of myths, is he picked seven distinct myths to specifically write about. Not only that but the myths Restall chose to write about were heavily elaborated and explained in the individual chapters. His outlined myths are as follows: the myth of exceptional men (chapter 1), the myth of the King’s Army (chapter 2), the myth of the white conquistador (chapter 3), the myth of
The landscape, trams, and distinctive wooden mansions give the city a unique charm. San Francisco is an outstanding representative of the physical geography. The essay aims to investigate the history of the region, the general features of four spheres of physical geography in San Francisco, and forms the possible representation of the future of the area. History
In her essay “The Home: Rancho Santa Fe and Suburban Style,” Phoebe Kropp discusses the emergence of the Spanish colonial style in Southern California. This architectural style became the signature style of this region as many communities began to build that architecture. Kropp uses the San Diego community of Rancho Santa Fe to argue how this style has been taken advantage of by Anglo American’s as they have used it in their modern communities. Kropp addresses that while these communities have adapted the Spanish colonial architectural style they have also created a discriminatory community where not all of the Spanish history and culture are being included and welcomed.
Walking up to the magnificent La Pedrera building the first thing I had to see was the pillar known as the elephant's foot. This pillar is notorious and was mentioned in the reading due it occupying too much space on the sidewalk of Passeig de Gracia. During construction Gaudi was informed of this by the government and told to make modifications, but Gaudi wouldn't budge. He wrote a letter back to the government and stated that if he were to modify the pillar, he would include a mocking inscription that would be-little the government. Fortunately the government rethought their demands and the pillar wasn't changed but this small aspect of the construction process I find awesome.