Journal of the Southwest articles from December 2006

Journal of the Southwest archives from December 2006

Foreword: Hispanic sacred geometry and the architecture of the divine.
December 22, 2006... The exploration of drawings and of their properties gives rise, through the semiotic mediation of dynamic geometry, to the recognition of a system of geometric relationships, which in the final analysis constitute the geometric object. ...

Acknowledgments.
December 22, 2006... The genesis of this study began in the late 1970s with a project to satisfy a requirement in two architectural classes at the University of Texas, Austin. Professors Eugene George and the late Miguel Celorio agreed to a single project in which...

Introduction: the historical background.(Spanish missions)
December 22, 2006... Churches, erected as the centers of missions founded by Spanish priests to Christianize native populations from California to Texas, have fascinated generations of Anglo-Americans. The attraction has resulted in numerous books and articles of...

1. Historical outline of mission development in the Californias.
December 22, 2006... Spaniards undertook the exploration of the Pacific coast within half a dozen years of their final conquest of the Aztec kingdom in 1521. Baja California was spotted in 1533 and its peninsular identity discovered in 1539 when Francisco de Ulloa...

1. Historical outline of mission development in the Californias.(San Francisco Borja-San Carlos Borromeo)
December 22, 2006... According to the Dominican Fr. Luis Sales, San Francisco Borja was founded by the Jesuit Fr. George Retz in 1757, when "they built a small church and poor habitations." (53) It was established with financial aid from Dona Mariana de Borja,...

1. Historical outline of mission development in the Californias.(Santa Barbara, Virgen y Martir-San Luis Rey de Francia)
December 22, 2006... Santa Barbara was the tenth mission to be founded in Alta California when its ministers took possession of the site on December 16, 1786. By the time they celebrated the first anniversary of its establishment, the chapel, ministers' rooms,...

2: Historical outline of mission development in Sonora.
December 22, 2006... Spanish occupation of the northwest territories, apart from the earliest abortive attempts in Baja California, began with an exploratory expedition by Francisco Ibarra, governor of the newly established (1562) administration of Nueva Vizcaya....

3: Historical outline of mission development in New Mexico and Chihuahua.
December 22, 2006... As seen in the previous chapters, Spanish conquerors began fanning out in search of other rich kingdoms or exploitable natural resources shortly after the final conquest of Tenochtitlan. Following the subjugation of areas to the west of the...

4: Historical outline of mission development in Texas.
December 22, 2006... The initial settlements of New Spain's northeastern sector were effected by Luis de Carabajal in the Nuevo Reino de Leon in the sixteenth century: Saltillo was founded sometime prior to 1578, other outposts in the 1580s. Due to Indian...

4: Historical outline of mission development in Texas.(San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo)
December 22, 2006... San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo (named after the Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo) was the second mission to be founded on the banks of the San Antonio River. It was the only one built there by the Franciscans of the College of Nucstra Senora de...

4: Historical outline of mission development in Texas.(Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna)
December 22, 2006... This mission was originally founded under the name of Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de los Aynais on July 7, 1716, as one of three placed among the Tejas tribes of northeast Texas by the Ramon-Espinosa expedition. It served as the...

Concluding statement.(geometrics of Spanish missions)
December 22, 2006... The question of why the application of what a modern mathematician might well view as "primitive" geometry to sacred buildings persisted for the better part of five thousand years, continuing among Spanish builders in the New World into the...

Glossary.(Glossary)
December 22, 2006... acequia. An irrigation ditch. alcalde mayor. The chief executive officer in a town or a district composed of several towns. asistencia. A term generally used in California instead of visita. audiencia. A judicial and legislative...

References.(Bibliography)
December 22, 2006... ARCHIVAL SOURCES University of Arizona, Documentary Relations of the Southwest (DP, SW) The following archives are amalgamated into General Index, Biofile, and Geofile accessible through the Internet: 1. Provincias Internas (PI)....