La reina del plata (Page 1) - “Instead of differentiation from Europe, Latin American theorists of modernity gleefully incorporated the West as homegrown, inculcating and recalling the cosmopolitan ideal as part of the national epic (Tenorio Trillo, 2003).” (Mendieta 129)
La reina del plata (Pages 2 & 3) - “For Angel Rama, the spatial practices of newly laid-out Latin American urban spaces in accordance with a pre-established logic commanded from Spain also commanded how the emergent urban life was to be lived. Cities in Latin America become transcontinental prostheses of an imperial semiotics.” (Mendieta 236)
La reina del plata (Pages 4 & 5) - “La hora’s diagnosis of the city’s ills has other, more explicit parallels to La cabeza de Goliat...For instance, they both rejected the city’s grandiose architecture as a vehicle of false consciousness...For Solanas and Getino, [directors of La hora] little was to be gained, and much to be lost, by dressing up Argentina to look like a first world metropolis.” (Podalsky 211)
La reina del plata (Pages 6 & 7) - “The President of the Central Society of Architects, Bartolome Repetto, put it succinctly in 1941: ‘We are taken by the unstoppable and all-powerful certainty that our homeland is destined to grandeur and splendor’ (quoted by Ortiz and Gutierrez 1973, 24).” (Guillén 20)
La reina del plata (Page 8) - “Authentic building occurs so far as there are poets, such poets as take the measure for architecture, the structure of dwelling.” (Heidegger’s Building Dwelling Thinking, quoted in Sharr 87)
“Any claim to authenticity...must raise powerful questions about who is given the authority to determine what is authentic, why and how.” (Sharr 90)
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