PUEBLO DECO The Art Deco Architecture of the Southwest [SOLD]


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  • Subject: NM Architecture & Design
  • Item # C4244H
  • Date Published: Hardback, slipcover, first edition 1984
  • Size: Illustrated , 125 pages
  • SOLD

PUEBLO DECO The Art Deco Architecture of the Southwest

Marcus Whiffen and Carla Breeze

University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque

Hardback, slipcover, first edition 1984.  Illustrated , 125 pages


The Southwest has both a history and an architectural history that sets it apart from the rest of the United States.  Not only is the Pueblo architectural tradition unique to the area, but the first European settlers, the Spanish, brought with them their own adobe building tradition that has altered the look of the regional architecture at all levels for centuries.  Although these traditions have never died out, they enjoyed an enthusiastic revival beginning in 1905.

Pueblo Deco derives not only from this revival, designed to attract tourists and to reinforce their cultural experience of the area, but also from an international style of modernist architecture, Pueblo Deco is a term coined to acknowledge the varied sources of this charming, period-piece architecture, which utilizes decoration derived from Pueblo and Navajo cultures—motifs taken from pottery, jewelry, basket work, and textiles—as well as the angularity, repetitiveness, and abstraction of much Art Deco ornamentation.

This book is a selective guide to the finest examples of Pueblo Deco in New Mexico, Arizona, and west Texas.  Twenty-seven buildings are represented, each with color photographs, architectural drawings, and descriptions and history.  

  • Subject: NM Architecture & Design
  • Item # C4244H
  • Date Published: Hardback, slipcover, first edition 1984
  • Size: Illustrated , 125 pages
  • SOLD

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