TEMA: De Gades a Tánger Med: la tradición del futuro en el Estrecho de Gibraltar

Presencia mexicana en las exposiciones internacionales. El pabellón «morisco» de Nueva Orleans (1884)

López Guzmán, Rafael y Avilés García, Aurora Yaratzeth

ABSTRACT

This study focuses on Mexico’s participation in international expositions from the late nineteenth century up to the Ibero-American Exhibition in Seville in 1929. Through examining the architecture used in Mexico’s constructions for these events, the creation of the national identity can be observed. Of particular interested to us is the Moorish pavilion built for the New Orleans exposition of 1884. Drawing on the neo-Arabic aesthetic, it was based at compositional level on the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and, at decorative level, on the architecture of al-Andalus and, more specifically, the Alhambra in Granada.

KEYWORDS

International expositions, neo-Arabic, Mexican identity, Alhambrism.

Número 21
2023
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MINISTERIO DE ASUNTOS EXTERIORES Y COOPERACIÓN. Aecid.JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍACOMUNIDAD DE MADRID. La Suma de Todos.Ayuntamiento de MadridAyuntamiento de Córdoba