Architecture Deconstructing History
The force of some projects or architectural Works is based on its historic
fundaments. The recurrence to stylistic elements from the past to create objects
in the present fallows the path to offer a product that takes from the
collective taste or from fashion its commercial viability. Never the less, the
solutions that unite those elements generally are based in a poor knowledge
of the original styles and their contexts, which is why the results become an
arbitrary handle of the stylistic elements and works without aesthetic logic.
In Mexico, the Word “colonial” has become an everyday Word, a word of
a huge and inexact use, applied to refer to the mix of several different
styles, from sites in different continents and created in different
times, those elements have in common the fact that they belong to
the past, mostly from the Spanish style in Mexico from the colony (from
the XVII and XVIII centuries), but that also have the baroque, the neoclassic,
the art nouveau and still the art deco from the early XX Century
Some of the elements are more highlighted tan the others when the intention
is to show the building as if it belongs to a determined style.
This way, when its offered as “colonial”, the highlighted element, even
if it is in a modest way, is the Spanish tile. Its place in facades is strategic,
to look like a symbol of identification with a supposed style.
The “Colonial style”, is a reformulation of the “Californian” style, call
“Spanish revival” in the United States. Fashions as the actual Californian
style are evidence of how an image based in elements from the past
works as a generator of the urban image and, most of all, from the collective
life. The interesting thing about this real state-urban-architectonical
phenomenon, from a cultural point of view, is the fact of that
the ignorance of the historic elements of architecture it has as an answer
a same demand. The taste, more than the technical knowledge, of
course, the determinant factor is the election of a product, like a house.
By : Tonatiuh Castro Silva
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