Architectural Styles
What style of architecture was used for the San Antonio National Bank Building of 1886?
Islamic architecture of Medieval Spain
The contradiction underlying the representation of Spanish identity was that the Hotel El Jardin ignored the region’s _______ architectural vernacular.
Mexican
What is the name of the literary movement that used American sectional subcultures as source material for popular fiction?
Local Color
What characteristics made the Hotel El Jardin recognizably Spanish?
Its use of stucco, tile roofed copings, and spanish ornament
What makes up the state of mind according to Harwell Hamilton Harris?
Free minds, imagination, and a stake in the future
What style was the Rice Institute designed in and why?
Byzantine, to “construct authenticity by appropriating difference and infuse the Rice Institute with distinctive identity”.
What makes up regionalism according to Harwell Hamilton Harris?
Climate, topography, and materials
What building was the San Antonio National Bank affiliated with due to its style?
Spanish church at mission San Francisco de la Espada outside San Antonio.
The sacred heart church of corpus christi is a ____ and ____ rendition of Espiritu santo?
Anti sentimental and anti picturesque
What term did Ima Hogg coin to describe the style of the River Oaks House?
Latin Colonial
What two styles were combined to create the Latin colonial style?
Spanish Mediterranean and Georgian styles
How did the River Oaks community center use regionalism to address both history and modernity?
It used regionalism to “assimilate modernity to historical codes of identity and resolved conflicts between new conditions and venerable forms”
What Texas city overtook San Antonio as the largest city and what year?
Houston in the 1920's
What did the Williams House exemplify as stated by Peter Papademetriou?
Formal Regionalism
The San Antonio national bank suggested that there was no contradiction between ______ and _____?
Tradition and antiquity
Why was spanish architecture used in an area that was predominantly a Mexican-Texan population?
It asserted difference from and superiority to other styles of architecture that existed in the area
What did these Texas buildings suggest about Regionalism?
They suggested that “regionalism is negotiable, flexible, and antithetically linked to circumstances that didn’t pertain primarily to narratives of place or cultural identity.”
What predicament was Ralph Adams Cram faced with when commissioned to design the Rice Institute in Houston?
The city of Houston possessed no historical architecture that could be revived and developed to serve as an origin of regional architecture
What traits made artists essential to the processes of negotiating differences that made regionalism possible?
Their ability to conceptually transform the old, the derelict, and the “other” into icons of regional identity
What city was the Hotel El Jardin located in?
Brownsville
Which building in San Antonio was the iconic feature identifying the California Mission Style?
The Alamo
What makes architecture in Texas compelling as a reflection of regionalist practices?
The state’s cities did not experience movements of local cultural exploration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and had a lack of well developed historical identities to use as precedent
What was the purpose of using the Spanish Mediterranean style in the late 1920’s?
To perform narratives of belonging and cultural continuity
How did the Klee Square merge the ideas of modernist practices with regionalism?
They used modernist design ideas and environmental responses to make “regionally resonant spaces without resorting to historical models”
The widely over hanging eaves, big windows, extensive terrace decks, screened, open-air living spaces, and louvered interior partitions of the Bromberg House were treated as materializations of _______ ________ rather than reflections of regional identity.
Climate Responsiveness