The viceregal architecture of Puebla. Tradition and artistic innovation

Puebla has a rich architectural and urban heritage from the viceregal period, witness to the different administrative organization projects and the arrival of various artistic languages ​​throughout the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

This talk will explore some of the different routes that were decisive in the configuration of spaces and languages, both architectural and urban.

It will also address the relationship between political and philosophical thought that determined urban aspects and to which many buildings respond, the different artistic traditions that influenced the architects of Puebla throughout the three centuries of New Spain, essential principles of construction systems and the importance to understand that many of the buildings, as they reached our days, were adapted and transformed according to the needs of each moment of the past and present.

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About Abraham Villavicencio

Chief Curator of the Franz Mayer Museum. He has served as Curator of viceroyalty art and Curatorship Coordinator of the National Museum of Art. He has curated, co-curated and coordinated more than 30 institutional exhibitions and contemporary artists. He is an academic at the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM.

He has published research articles in books, catalogs and magazines of the National Institute of Fine Arts, the National Institute of Anthropology and History, the Mexican Academy of History, the Economic Culture Fund, the Historical and Aesthetic Research Institutes of the National University Autónoma de México, the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona and the School of Hispano-American Studies of Seville, as well as outreach essays on art, history and religious imaginary