academicanarchist - 4-5-2007 at 05:54 PM
I recently spent several days in Albuquerque, and photographed several of the Spanish missions.
Quarai
academicanarchist - 4-5-2007 at 05:55 PM
Ysleta
academicanarchist - 4-5-2007 at 05:56 PM
AcademicAnarchist
BAJACAT - 4-14-2007 at 08:04 PM
I always enjoy your pictures,do you have any pics,of missions in Sonora Mx.
Pimeria Alta
academicanarchist - 4-19-2007 at 05:00 PM
Yes.
San Francisco Xavier del Bac
academicanarchist - 4-19-2007 at 05:10 PM
Cocospera
academicanarchist - 4-19-2007 at 05:11 PM
Tubutama
academicanarchist - 4-19-2007 at 05:12 PM
DENNIS - 4-19-2007 at 05:36 PM
Interesting architecture in the low-land missions, especially in Baja. Aside from the massive abuttments, they were limited in their width by the
available timber to span the overhead.
Walk into any standing mission today and the narrowness is a first impression.
I don't know how old the Truss is but, it wasn't used here at that time.
Thanks ACA for the view of the past.
yes ACA thanks..
BAJACAT - 4-19-2007 at 09:19 PM
Mesquite Beam
academicanarchist - 4-20-2007 at 01:31 AM
I was a grad student at the University of Arizona in the early 1980s, and was given an insiders tour of San Xavier del Bac by the priest. The interior
of the convento wing that adjoins the church contains a relatively large mexquite beam, from a large mesquite that no longer can be found in the
region because of progress. I am attaching a 1792 diagram of Los Santos Martires de Japon, one of the Jestuit missions in Argentina which was quite
large and had three naves, a feature not common in northern Mexican missions.
