John Gaw Meem at Acoma : the restoration of San Esteban del Rey mission /

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"Built by Spanish Franciscan missionaries in the seventeenth century, the magnificent mission church at Acoma Pueblo in west-central New Mexico is the oldest and largest intact adobe structure in North America. But in the 1920s, in danger of becoming a ruin, the building was restored in a coope...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wingert-Playdon, Kate, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
Temas:
Meem, John Gaw, > 1894-1983.
Meem, John Gaw, > 1894-1983
San Estevan del Rey Mission Church (Acoma, N.M.)
Adobe churches > Conservation and restoration > New Mexico > Acoma Pueblo.
Spanish mission buildings > Conservation and restoration > New Mexico > Acoma Pueblo.
ARCHITECTURE > Historic Preservation > General.
ARCHITECTURE > Regional.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Religious.
Spanish mission buildings > Conservation and restoration
New Mexico > Acoma Pueblo
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Active Reading, Authenticity, Memory; 1: Background: A Work of Architecture and Its Contexts; 2: Building to Last: Church Roof, 1924; 3: Claiming Authorship: South Wall and South Tower, 1926; 4: Culture and Tourism: East Façade and North Tower, 1927; 5: Patronage and Questioning of Intentions: Hiatus, 1928; 6: Aesthetics as a Form of Preservation: Tower Completion, 1929; 7: The Long Term at Acoma: Initiatives and Results of the Work in the 1920s; 8: An American Monument: Two Ways of Seeing the Mission.
  • Afterword: A Part of the EnvironmentAppendix: Participants in the 1920s Preservation Project at Acoma; Notes; References; Index; Back Cover.

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