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SUMMARY:Iberian Modernist Studies Collaborative Colloquium: Miguel Caballero
DESCRIPTION:\n&ldquo\;Modernism and Monumentalism: The Gigantic Scale of
Construction in Transatlantic Perspective&rdquo\;\n\nwith Miguel Caball
ero (Northwestern University)\n\nThe consolidation of the skyscraper in
the United States and the emergent cult to ruins and the grandiloquent s
cale of construction in Fascist Italy\, Nazi Germany\, and Stalinist Sov
iet Union set the intellectual debates about monumentalism at the center
during the 1920s&ndash\;1930s. This talk explores the articulation of t
his debate in the Ibero-Mexican context through the analysis of the theo
retical and historiographic work of Mexican architect and archaeologist
Francisco Mujica. Mujica&rsquo\;s History of the Skyscraper (1929) is on
e of the first in its genre. He accompanied it with a theory of the arch
itectural repressed in which he connected pre-Columbian teocallis with m
odern skyscrapers through their monumentalism\, in contrast to the Spani
sh human-based scale of construction. Despite his rather de-colonial app
roach to aesthetic theory\, he eventually sold his archaeological drawin
gs to the Francoist Museum of America. I frame the analysis of his work
in the context of the modernist discussions about monumentalism that con
nected the gigantic scale of construction with transatlantic history.\n\
nContact info: Krista Brune (kbrune@psu.edu) and Nicolá\;s Fern&aa
cute\;ndez-Medina (nuf3@psu.edu)\n\n \;\n\nFor more details: https:/
/events.la.psu.edu/event/hi_miguel-caballero/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:“Moder
nism and Monumentalism: The Gigantic Scale of Construction in Transatlan
tic Perspective”
with Miguel Caballero (Northwestern Uni
versity)
The consolidation of the skyscraper in the United States
and the emergent cult to ruins and the grandiloquent scale of constructi
on in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Stalinist Soviet Union set the in
tellectual debates about monumentalism at the center during the 1920s&nd
ash;1930s. This talk explores the articulation of this debate in the Ibe
ro-Mexican context through the analysis of the theoretical and historiog
raphic work of Mexican architect and archaeologist Francisco Mujica. Muj
ica’s History of the Skyscraper (1929) is one of the first
in its genre. He accompanied it with a theory of the architectural repre
ssed in which he connected pre-Columbian teocallis with modern skyscrape
rs through their monumentalism, in contrast to the Spanish human-based s
cale of construction. Despite his rather de-colonial approach to aesthet
ic theory, he eventually sold his archaeological drawings to the Francoi
st Museum of America. I frame the analysis of his work in the context of
the modernist discussions about monumentalism that connected the gigant
ic scale of construction with transatlantic history.
Contact info:
Krista Brune (kbrune@psu.edu) and N
icolás Fernández-Medina (nuf3@psu.edu)
For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi_miguel-caballero/
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