By Chris Wilson
A wave of exposure in the course of the Eighties projected Santa Fe to the realm as an unique vacationer destination—America’s personal Tahiti within the barren region. the parable of Santa Fe is going in the back of the romantic adobe facades and mass advertising stereotypes to inform the attention-grabbing yet little identified tale of ways the city’s desirable photograph was once rather consciously created early during this century, essentially by way of Anglo-American rookies. by way of investigating the city’s trademark architectural sort, public ceremonies, the historical renovation circulation, and cultural traditions, Wilson unravels the advanced interactions of ethnic identification and vacationer image-making. Santa Fe's is a highly smooth luck story—the tale of a neighborhood that reworked itself from a declining provincial capital of 5,000 in 1912 into an the world over famous vacationer vacation spot. however it can also be a cautionary story in regards to the commodification of local American and Hispanic cultures, and the social displacement and ethnic animosities that could accompany a vacationer growth.
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Page iii The Myth of Santa Fe Creating a Modern Regional Tradition Chris Wilson Page iv Copyright © 1997 by Chris Wilson. All rights reserved. 1st ed. cm. Includes index. Title. 9'5605dc20 95-50222 CIP Design: Mary Shapiro The author wishes to thank the following publishers and publications for the opportunity to air some of this material previously, and to adapt portions of those articles for publication here: "The Spanish Pueblo Revival Defined, 19041921," New Mexico Studies in the Fine Arts, 7, © 1982 by Regents of the University of New Mexico.
While Pueblo Indians had a similar tradition of earth and stone construction, including the occasional use of hand-formed "loafs" of dried earth (and rare hand-formed "bricks"), regular adobe bricks were a Spanish introduction. The Spanish would first fill a wooden form with mud and a little straw, added to facilitate even drying. The bricks were next pushed out of the mold, stacked, and cured in the sun. Workmen laid the bricks with earthen mortar, starting directly on the ground or on a stone-rubble footing.
The Mediterranean-Andalusian precedent, climatic conditions, and the Aztec-Tlaxcalan building tradition converged to make the courtyard house the primary dwelling of the crystallized Spanish-Mexican culture. This house type was diffused by the Spanish and their Indian and Mestizo allies throughout much of Mexico. Particularly in areas that lacked substantial indigenous dwellings, the courtyard house emerged quickly as the new norm. This was true for much of the present-day American Southwest and for north-central Page 36 Mexico, where it remains the prevalent dwelling type in rural areas into the twentieth century.