Among the oldest buildings in the United States, the churches of Spanish New Mexico--made of earth, of stone, of wood--are the surprisingly fragile reminders of a unique amalgam of Spanish architectural ideas and native American Pueblo culture. This book surveys the land and rivers, the people and ideas, that led to this compelling religious architecture; it is also a guide to visiting these churches today. In the ninth century the Anasazi, progenitors of the Pueblo peoples, constructed refined architectural complexes at ...
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Among the oldest buildings in the United States, the churches of Spanish New Mexico--made of earth, of stone, of wood--are the surprisingly fragile reminders of a unique amalgam of Spanish architectural ideas and native American Pueblo culture. This book surveys the land and rivers, the people and ideas, that led to this compelling religious architecture; it is also a guide to visiting these churches today. In the ninth century the Anasazi, progenitors of the Pueblo peoples, constructed refined architectural complexes at Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon. Contact with the Spanish in the late 1500s transformed the world of these indigenous peoples, changing their agricultural and living patterns--as well as religious practices. These changes were manifest architecturally in the sanctuaries the Spanish constructed as missions for the Indians or as parish churches for themselves. First built roughly between 1600 and 1829, but continuing to be rebuilt into this century, they were made of the very materials composing the land itself. In Part I, Marc Treib addresses the geographical, anthropological, and architectural aspects of church building in New Mexico and provides background on the church as both an institution and a building type. Part II presents thirty churches in depth and discusses such topics as sitting, construction in adobe and stone, the use of light, ornamentation, and the issues surrounding restoration. Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico is the only book in print to include all the major church sites still extant. Richly illustrated, with specially prepared plans of the churches, it will be welcomed by architectural historians and anyone with an interest in the American Southwest.
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Ex-library in Ex-library jacket. White cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto [8.75" x 11.25"], illustrated in color and b&w. Book ex-library with plates, pockets, stamps, numbers, withdrawl stamps to front endpapers, tape to edges of boards, binding tight, aside from library marks text is clean. DJ has blacked out sticker to spine foot, edgewear, rubbing.
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Near fine in near fine jacket. Color and b/w photographic illustrations throughout. 352 pages. 4to, white cloth, d.w. Berkeley: University of California Press, (1993). First edition. Previous owner's signature on title page. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Drawings by Dorothee Imbert. Foreword by J.B. Jackson.
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Fine. Book First edition. Foreword by J. B. Jackson. Quarto. xvi, [2], 352pp. Hundreds of black & white and color photographs, floor plans, drawings by Dorothée Imbert. White cloth stamped in copper and black. Two corners slightly jammed, else a very fine copy. An excellent and detailed historical survey of ancient New Mexico churches, shown both as religious symbols and products of a frontier economy and Indian labor. The author's historical and architectural expertise is revealed in his discussion if prosaic details, the limited choice of materials and tools, and the restraints imposed by soil and climate.
