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Coinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America.
List of contents
- Foreword by Robert W. Rydell
- Preface: Entre autopista y puente
- Acknowledgments
- Pan-American Architecture Chronology
- Introduction: Entering Pan-America
- Mapping the Sources of the Pan-American Idea
- The Pan-American Citizen
- Equal Representation for All Americans
- Chapter 1. The Birth of Pan-American Architecture: Hemispheric Fairs, 1884-1901
- Logical Pan-Americanism at Two New Orleans Expositions
- Before the White City: Quadricentennial Visions for 1892
- The Pan-American Exposition in an American Power City, 1895-1901
- Chapter 2. A Rubber-Fig Tree for the Patio: America's Peace Temple, 1907-1913
- The Competition
- After the Competition
- Transforming the "Latins" with Patio and Pool
- Nuestra Pan-América
- Chapter 3. In Search of Modern Pan-America: The Columbus Memorial Lighthouse
- Kelsey's Perfect Competition
- Pan-America's Heritage Is Explored in Stage One
- Kelsey Orchestrates the Second Stage
- Gleave's Transformative Cross
- Building the Unwelcomed Columbus Memorial
- Chapter 4. Gateway to the Americas: Dreaming Interama, HemisFair Living
- Interama and the Inter-American Subject
- HemisFair '68 and New Liaisons with Las Américas
- The Last Hemispheric Fairs
- Epilogue: Enter Here: The Great Pan-American Way
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
By Robert Alexander González
Summary
Coinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America.
