Abstract
HISPAKO-AMERICAN architecture is not likely to be a subject with which very many European readers are familiar. It is, however, well worth study, on account of its innate beauty and form. Its period of development extends from the middle of the sixteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth, when Spanish domination came to an end. Mexican architecture in its main lines followed that of Spain at a time when the Renaissance style was developing in the mother country. It presents, however, a course of independent development of its own, which comes out in many features, but especially in the use of coloured tiles. Of its peculiarities, many are due to the employment of native workmen, Indians, who themselves had an architectural tradition behind them, and considerable artistic taste of their own. It is this which gives Spanish-American architecture an individual interest as a subject of study. Mr. Kilham's informative sketch of its history is clear in its description and exceedingly well illustrated.
Mexican Architecture of the Vice-Regal Period.
Walter H.
Kilham
By Pp. 223+ 84 plates. (New York and London: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1927.) 21s. net.
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Mexican Architecture of the Vice-Regal Period. Nature 121, 168 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121168c0
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