Spanish Influences Found in Design

1. Spanish Influences found in Design
2. The Courtyard Mission
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   The San Antonio Botanical Garden has a wonderful display of home and gardening styles Since much of the Southwest has a Spanish influence, I would like to focus on the elements that they include in the makeup of this area. An atrium provides a peaceful and secure area to gather and focus inward. Water elements could be added to create an oasis from the heat.
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   CreditJeanette Hyden

6. Terra cotta tiles and colorful accents.  Call it Mission,  Spanish Revival, Hispano-Moorish, or Southwest. Detail elements in the  house
7. Unlike Mission Revival Art and Crafts era gardens, Spanish Colonial Revival gardens were a variant of the Southwest’s high-style Mediterranean neoclassical Beaux-Arts garden tradition. Generally dating from 1900 to 1940 and typically associated with large estates and public projects, these gardens employed powerful axial organization, extensive, crisply edged hedging, and colorful and/or ornate geometric fountains and pools to celebrate the region’s aristocratic Spanish heritage. Prototypes for this style came from the Spanish-Islamic and Persian garden precursors rather than Spanish Colonial or Mexican traditions.
   
   Garden “rooms” and patios often featured Spanish or Persian ceramics, tiles and motifs, as well as ornamental “Mediterranean” plants introduced from Asia, Africa and South America as well as from the Mediterranean. Formality of line typically was tempered by the exuberant growth of well-watered plantings. Spanish Colonial Revival Gardens graced both Spanish Colonial and Spanish Baroque architecture.
8. https://tclf.org/category/designed-landscape-style/spanish-colonial-revival-hispano-moorish

Day of the Dead_________________________________________________

Papel picado ("perforated paper," "pecked paper") is a decorative craft made by cutting elaborate designs into sheets of tissue paper^[1]. Papel picado is considered a Mexican folk art. The designs are commonly cut from colored tissue paper using a guide or template, a small mallet, and chisels, creating as many as fifty banners at a time^[2]. Papel picado can also be made by folding tissue paper and using small, sharp scissors. Common themes include birds, floral designs, and skeletons. Papel picados are commonly displayed for both secular and religious occasions, such as Easter, Christmas, the Day of the Dead, as well as during weddings, quinceañeras, baptisms, and christenings. In Mexico, papel picados are often incorporated into the altars (ofrendas) during the Day of the Dead and are hung throughout the streets during holidays^[3]. In the streets of Mexico, papel picados are often strung together to create a banner that can either be hung across alleyways or displayed in the home.Shops, restaurants and vibrant surroundings. All at Market Square. A three-block outdoor plaza lined with shops, and restaurants in downtown San Antonio, Market Square is the largest Mexican market in the United States. The “El Mercado” and the “Farmer’s Market Plaza” boasts more then 100 locally owned shops and stalls. Enjoy the sights and flavors of old Mexico and find authentic Talavera pottery, exotic curios and handcrafted works of art. Stay for the gourmet Mexican cuisine at Mi Tierra and La Margarita, or kick back at the Farmers Market Food Court 

Talavera mosaic used to decorate a fountain at the Chautla Hacienda in San Salvador el Verde, Puebla

Artist, Fred Kahlo

Fred Kahlo's colorful Courtyard Garden, Casa Azul

SPANISH COLONIAL REVIVAL (HISPANO-MOORISH) 1900 - 1940

Metal work
Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Texas

Designed by architects Carl and Carleton Adams, this 33-acre campus was completed in 1932 on a rural tract of land known as Spanish Acres, located approximately five miles northwest of downtown. The city’s third public high school, it quickly garnered national attention for its grand Spanish Colonial Revival architecture and was featured on the cover of Life in 1938. The Monticello Park and Jefferson suburban residential neighborhoods developed over time around the grounds, which are bounded today by Wilson Boulevard, Club Drive, Kampmann Boulevard, and Donaldson Avenue.

Arranged around two courtyards, the interconnected building complex is situated atop a gently sloping hill and aligned 23 degrees off the east-west axis to take advantage of prevailing winds. A curved concrete walkway, divided by a central median planted with native perennials, leads up the hill to the main entrance from Kampmann Boulevard, which is lined with small trees. Just west of the main entrance, a stucco arcade borders the southern edge of a square grass courtyard with concrete pathways shaded by mature canopy trees. To the east, a second, larger grass courtyard contains a hexagonal fountain embellished with red and blue ceramic Talavera tiles. Renovations were completed during the 1960s and 1970s to accommodate more students, including the addition of a three-story east wing designed by architecture firm Phelps & Simmons in 1963. Tennis courts and a football field are located north of the complex, and a baseball field lies to the east. Thomas Jefferson High School was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.