1019 Fordham, Hyde Park
Description
Front view of a house in the town of San Juan. The house is one-story, in concrete, with a gabled roof. It has a front garden with planters and different plants. There is a porch in the front sustained by columns. The wooden door is simple and the house has glass crossbars.| Origin Name |
CAJ_4113_F0001_R
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| Relation |
Archivo de Arquitectura y Construcción de la Universidad de Puerto Rico > Colección Carol F. Jopling > Caja 4 - Inventarios
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| Geographical Coverage |
San Juan
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| Date |
[19--]
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| 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". On the back of the photo, there are handwritten notes that read: "1019 Fordham". 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).
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| Descripción decolonial |
A middle-class home built in the modernist architectural style sometimes call Tropicalismo. The adoption of this style in Puerto Rican urban and suburban spaces runs parallel with a pivotal change in government, as Puerto Ricans began electing their leaders, rather than having them appointed by the United States, starting with Luis Muñoz Marín. Tropicalismo symbolized Puerto Rico's self-government and a new self-defined path to modernization, echoing broader societal transformations. Muñoz Marín's 1948 election and the rise of the Partido Popular Democrático initiated a political metamorphosis, which called for a symbolic distancing from colonial symbols and foreign architectural influences, such as Spanish fortifications and imported missionary styles of the United States, in favor of a new tropicalist modern aesthetic. Like but distinct from other Latin American nations, such as Mexico and Brazil, where Tropicalismo accompanied radical social changes, Puerto Rican architects employed the modernist idiom to signify modest reforms and progress within a prevailing colonialist landscape, as witnessed in middle-class San Juan neighborhoods and city-center hotels, privately-operated but built with public funds.
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| Rights |
English Rights. (hyperlink)
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| Editor |
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
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| Resource Format |
JPEG
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| Resource Type |
Image
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