Month: March 2018

These two weeks we have focused on the presence of Iberian and Colonial Latino American architectural heritage in five buildings: the Yaraab Temple/Fox Theatre, the Or Ve Shalom Synagogue, the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (featured in this week’s Canvas page), the Cathedral of Christ the King, and the marketplaces of Sweet Auburn Curb Market on Edgewood Avenue.

For this week’s blog I ask that you connect TWO of these buildings with a corresponding building (a basilica, a cathedral, a mosque, a synagogue, a theatre, or a market place) in Spain or Latino America. In your comment, say how one or more of the readings by Said, Ruggles, Esteban-Chapapría, Dodds, Simpson, Claderwood, and Bailey can help us identify some of the reasons why it is difficult to point to this heritage.  You can post your comment by MONDAY April 2 at 10AM.

Last week we discussed style as a critical unit to study architecture, and how Robert Craig identified four different styles with substantial presence in Atlanta architecture.  We began the discussion of Art Deco, and this Tuesday we threaded the similarities and differences between Deco and Yaraab, which Craig termed “a Fox in Sheik’s Clothing” (63).

On Thursday, we are going to move from the seemingly exotic masks and decor of the Islamicate style in Atlanta to a more ubiquitous style: that which Craig reads as the “Modern Classic” and its relationship to the American history episode known as The New Deal.  Write a comment in which you choose one of the following buildings analyzed in the fourth chapter of Craig’s volume, and explain the correspondence of that building with the New Deal: Alumni Hall, GA State University; Volunteer State Life Building; Industrial Life and Health Insurance Building; Thompson Boland Lee Shoe Store; Rhodes Center; Olympia Building; Naval Armory, GA Tech; and Techwood Homes (pictured above as well).  Deadline for this post is Saturday March 10 at 5pm.