Buildings D - PRAHA

Buildings D

Description

Side view of a two-story, concrete house located in Miramar. On the first level, there is a double, wooden door surrounded by moldings and cornices. On the second level, the house has double wooden, lattice-glass style doors. The door is also surrounded by moldings and in front of it, there is an ornamental metal fence parapet. The rest of the façade is decorated with moldings and brackets sustaining the cornice on the upper edge.
Origin Name
CAJ_1002_N0013
Relation
Archivo de Arquitectura y Construcción de la Universidad de Puerto Rico > Colección Carol F. Jopling > Caja 2 - Pruebas de contacto y negativos
Geographical Coverage
San Juan
Date
1979
Descriptive Notes
The title, date, and address were provided by the Architecture and Construction Archive of the University of Puerto Rico (AACUPR). In the file provided by the archive, the following information is clarified: "Photographer: Carol F. Jopling, architecture students, or Earth Watch volunteers". Some of the photos found in the archives of this collection are repeated and show the same houses because they document other formats created for the research project led by Carol F. Jopling and were taken on different occasions (example: 35mm negatives, color, black and white, instant photos, photos that were brightened or with contrast).
Historical Background
Architectural Subject
  • Houses
  • Double doors
  • Moldings (object components)
  • Cornices
  • Bas-relief (sculpture technique)
  • Palm trees
  • Brackets (structural elements)
  • Window sills
  • Railings (balustrades)
  • Grilles (barrier elements)
  • Renaissance Revival
Decolonial Subject
Rights
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Editor
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
Resource Format
JPEG
Resource Type
Image
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