Editing Culture of Mexico (section)

==Architecture==
{{Main|Architecture of Mexico}}
{{See also|Mesoamerican architecture}}
[[File:MX_MM_PANORÁMICAS_DESFILE_ZÓCALO.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The [[Zócalo]]]]

With thirty-four sites, Mexico has more sites on the [[UNESCO World Heritage]] list than any other country in the [[Americas]]; most of the sites pertain to Mexico's architectural history. Mesoamerican architecture in Mexico is best known for its public, ceremonial, and urban monumental buildings and structures, several of which are the largest monuments in the world. Mesoamerican architecture is divided into three eras, Pre-Classic, Classic, and Post-Classic. Architect [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] is reputed to have declared the [[Puuc]]-style architecture of the [[Maya civilization|Maya]] as the best in the [[Western Hemisphere]].<ref name="Freidel">{{cite web|url=http://archive.archaeology.org/0703/abstracts/maya.html |title=Betraying the Maya |work=Archeology Magazine |access-date=November 8, 2014}}</ref>

The [[New Spanish Baroque]] dominated in early colonial Mexico. During the late 17th century to 1750, one of Mexico's most popular architectural styles was Mexican [[Churrigueresque]], which combined [[Amerindian]] and [[Moorish]] decorative influences.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nt9_n-r6VKUC&dq=%22mexico%22+architecture+New+Spanish+Baroque+17th+century&pg=PA117|title=Architecture and Its Sculpture in Viceregal Mexico|page=117|isbn=978-0-292-78805-3 |last1=Mullen |first1=Robert J. |date=5 July 2010 |publisher=University of Texas Press }}</ref>

The [[Academy of San Carlos]], founded in 1788, was the first major art academy in the Americas. The academy promoted [[Neoclassicism]], focusing on Greek and Roman art and architecture. Notable Neoclassical works include the [[Hospicio Cabañas]], a world heritage site, and the [[Palacio de Minería]], both by Spanish Mexican architect [[Manuel Tolsá]].

From 1864 to 1867, during the [[Second Mexican Empire]], [[Maximilian I of Mexico|Maximilian I]] was installed as emperor of Mexico. His architectural legacy lies in the redesigning of the [[Castillo de Chapultepec]] and creating the [[Paseo de la Reforma]]. This intervention, financed largely by France, was brief, but it began a period of French influence in architecture and culture. The style was emphasized during the presidency of [[Porfirio Diaz]], who was a pronounced [[francophile]]. Notable works from the [[Porfiriato]] include the [[Palacio de Correos de Mexico|Palacio de Correos]] and a large [[Rail transport in Mexico|network of railways]].

After the [[Mexican Revolution]] in 1917, idealization of the indigenous and the traditional symbolized attempts to reach into the past and retrieve what had been lost in the race toward modernization.

Functionalism, expressionism, and other schools left their imprint on a large number of works in which Mexican stylistic elements have been combined with European and American techniques, most notably the work of [[Pritzker Prize]] winner [[Luis Barragán]]. His personal home, the [[Luis Barragán House and Studio]], is a [[World Heritage Site]].

[[Enrique Norten]], the founder of TEN Arquitectos, has been awarded several honors for his work in [[modern architecture]]. His work expresses a modernity that reinforces the government's desire to present a new image of Mexico as an industrialized country with a global presence.

Other notable and emerging contemporary architects include [[Mario Schjetnan]], [[Michel Rojkind]], [[Isaac Broid Zajman]],  [[Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta]], and [[Alberto Kalach]].

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File:June 2007 Teotihuacan 7.jpg|Ancient city of Teotihuacán (200 BC - 800 AD).
File:Uxmal.jpg|Ancient Mayan city of [[Uxmal]], exuberant in [[Puuc|Puuc style]]. ~700 AD.
File:Interior Templo de Santo Domingo de Guzmán.JPG|[[Church of Santo Domingo de Guzmán]], Oaxaca'''.''' 1572–1724
File:Catedral de Zacatecas esquina.JPG|Cathedral of [[Zacatecas (city)|Zacatecas]]. 1729–1772.
File:2013-12-26 Puebla Casa de Alfenique anagoria.JPG|Casa del alfeñique (House of the alfeñique), [[Puebla (city)|Puebla]]. Late 1700s.
File:Instituto Cabañas 2.jpg|[[Hospicio Cabañas]]. 1791
File:Teatro Juarez 2003.jpg|Juárez Theater, [[Guanajuato (city)|Guanajuato]]. 1873–1903
File:Fachada lateral de la Quinta Gameros 2.JPG|Quinta Gameros, [[Chihuahua City|Chihuahua]]. 1910.
File:Bellas Artes 01.jpg|Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts). 1904–1934.
File:Biblioteca and Torre des Humanidades I from Las Islas, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City.jpg|[[National Autonomous University of Mexico]]. 1950s.
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