Designing Pan-America: U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere Gonzlez Robert Alexander
Designing Pan-America: U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere Gonzlez Robert Alexander Late in the nineteenth century, U.S. As their desire to dominate commerce and trade in the…
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Designing Pan-America: U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere Gonzlez Robert Alexander
Late in the nineteenth century, U.S. As their desire to dominate commerce and trade in the Western Hemisphere grew, these 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.
architects to help set the stage for Pan-Americanism's development. interests promoted the concept of "Pan-Americanism" to link the United States and Latin America and called on U.S. 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