Presidio, Mission, and Pueblo: Spanish Architecture and Urbanism in the United States

Rating:
Summary: AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE
Review: James Early, a professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University is an acknowledged expert in the field of architecture who has penned several works in that area. For this reader "Presidio, Mission, and Pueblo" is his finest. It is a fitting chronicle and tribute to the architectural accomplishments of the American Southwest.

Richly illustrated and comprehensive this volume includes Florida, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Structures receiving a close look are varied - there's a stone fort in St. Augustine, buildings surrounding the plaza in the French Quarter of New Orleans, churches resembling pueblos in New Mexico, and stone churches found in Texas, Arizona, and California.

Thorough to the nth degree Early discusses the social, political, and economic contexts in which these structures were built.

"Presidio, Mission, and Pueblo" is an invaluable resource for scholars and architectural historians.

- Gail Cooke

Rating:
Summary: AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE
Review: James Early, a professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University is an acknowledged expert in the field of architecture who has penned several works in that area. For this reader "Presidio, Mission, and Pueblo" is his finest. It is a fitting chronicle and tribute to the architectural accomplishments of the American Southwest.

Richly illustrated and comprehensive this volume includes Florida, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Structures receiving a close look are varied - there's a stone fort in St. Augustine, buildings surrounding the plaza in the French Quarter of New Orleans, churches resembling pueblos in New Mexico, and stone churches found in Texas, Arizona, and California.

Thorough to the nth degree Early discusses the social, political, and economic contexts in which these structures were built.

"Presidio, Mission, and Pueblo" is an invaluable resource for scholars and architectural historians.

- Gail Cooke

Rating:
Summary: An informed and informative analytical survey
Review: Presidio, Mission, And Pueblo: Spanish Architecture And Urbanism In The United States by architectural historian James Early is an informed and informative analytical survey of architectural marvels in the "old Spanish borderlands" of Florida, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Professor Early scrutinizes majestic works from the great stone fort in St. Augustine; the pueblo-style churches of New Mexico, and more. Black-and-white as well as color photographs sumptuously illustrate this extensively researched and deftly narrated examination. Also available in a hardcover edition, Presidio, Mission, And Pueblo is a very highly recommended addition to academic library American Architectural History Studies reference collections and reading lists.