Publication: Discursos en piedra. La retórica del poder en la arquitectura caribeña del siglo XVIII
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Luengo, Pedro
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Publicaciones Enredars / Andavira Editora
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La posibilidad de crear una retórica del poder en la arquitectura de época moderna ha recibido una creciente atención en los últimos años. Esta visión, centrada por el
momento en ejemplos europeos, puede extrapolarse a las construcciones promovidas
por los imperios en los territorios ultramarinos. De esta forma, cada potencia intentaría definir paulatinamente una imagen que plasmaría en sus edificios gubernamentales
más destacados a lo largo del siglo XVIII. Esto no se realizaría como una política centralizada desde la metrópoli, sino como una traslación natural, y quizás inconsciente, de lo que era un incipiente carácter. En esta primera aproximación se toman diferentes ejemplos del virreinato de Nueva España, así como del ámbito francés en el Caribe. De ellos se analizan tanto la disposición en planta como la decoración de fachadas.
The possibility of creating a rhetoric of power in early modern architecture has received increasing attention in recent years. This perspective, focused until now on European examples, can be extrapolated to the constructions supported by the empires in the overseas territories. In this way, each power would try to gradually define an image embodied in its most prominent government buildings throughout the eighteenth century. This would not be done as a centralised policy from the metropolis but as a natural, and perhaps unconscious, translation of what was an incipient character. In this first approach, we take different examples of New Spain Viceroyalty and the French settlements in the Caribbean. The layout in the plan and the decorative proposals in facades are analysed.
The possibility of creating a rhetoric of power in early modern architecture has received increasing attention in recent years. This perspective, focused until now on European examples, can be extrapolated to the constructions supported by the empires in the overseas territories. In this way, each power would try to gradually define an image embodied in its most prominent government buildings throughout the eighteenth century. This would not be done as a centralised policy from the metropolis but as a natural, and perhaps unconscious, translation of what was an incipient character. In this first approach, we take different examples of New Spain Viceroyalty and the French settlements in the Caribbean. The layout in the plan and the decorative proposals in facades are analysed.




