In Your Neighborhood: Two Homes in Acapulco, Mexico, with Sophia Loyzaga
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Join Sophia Loyzaga for a journey to two residential projects in Acapulco, Mexico. Sophia is part of the Mexico-based ICAA Member firm, Loyzaga Design, founded by her father, architect Jorge Lozaga, and where she is also joined by her sister Fernanda.
Learn how the history of Acapulco and its overseas trade connections inspired a mix of elements from Mexico and the Philippines in one house, San Nicolas del Mar, and how Balinese design elements were incorporated into another, Los Ángeles del Mar.
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I'm in love with the first home. It's a wonderful celebration of Acapulco's history.
Beautiful
I clicked because the house in the thumbnail looks like an old Filipino bahay na bato 😍
Beautiful designs
these are the kind of videos i want but not much available on the internet
No wonder it looks like Filipino Architecture... I was like there's a 'Bahay na Bato' in Mexico??? Wow
Love your family’s house. Would love to have something like that built in Wash. DC. Along embassy row. Capiz double paned windows?
Let’s not get it wrong. It was a trade between Manila, Philippines and Acapulco, Mexico. Mariana is nothing but a footnote, and “Asian” products in the galleon trade were Filipino products, “asian, Chinese, oriental” textiles, dish ware were made by exploited Filipino-Chinese living in Tondo and Binondo, Chinatown Manila. Much of the trade isn’t really a trade- spices, goods such as cane sugar, tobacco, etc were products of imperialist Spain on the backs of Filipino people. Can’t see much of traces of Spain in Philippines now besides nomenclature influence and Catholicism denoting how much of a one way benefit the cultural meeting had. Catholicism has held back the country from growing and taking on non-conservative ideals. Colonial America had more of a lasting impact, neoclassical architecture favored by US for government buildings for example, you can go to the most remote places and City hall buildings are in neoclassical style. Governance influence, official language in English, military and education etc. The US did exploit Philippines as well but for 350 years Spain had Philippines its a shame Spain or Philippines don’t have much to show for it. But we can’t really say how much did Spain take in the formative years they took outright from the indigenous. There was a lot of destruction to indigenous culture imposing Catholicism that much of prespanish history is lost. And marianas? Their language alone borrows from Filipino. Most of their residents can trace their ancestry from Philippines. Genealogically they are Filipino. Philippines have been giving the world service as exports way before the nurses, blue collar workers today, during colonial and imperial time, exploitable indigenous Filipino were hopping on boats filling the work force needed in marianas, Guam, pacific islands, Hawaii, Acapulco. Deckhands in the galleon trade hopped off in Mexico left their working conditions and somehow found their way in Louisiana and established a small fishing village before there was a United States and before Louisiana purchase. Let’s not minimize Philippines like some small insignificant footnote. Filipinos are studying in Georgetown univ, living and interacting daily with the world of architecture featured on this channel. So many Filipino immigrants most have negligible impact as they are employed as the help all around the world. But 2nd gen Filipinos are usually super successful stories in their educational careers, taking on start ups, business stories, and even getting into politics, building wealth. I sat gen 2 are silent because they so badly need to be accepted and try hard to assimilate. But gen 3 and gen 4, they will seek their cultural heritage identity and will be an international community to be reckoned with..
For more history on this architectural style search vigan, Philippines and las casas filipinas de acuzar. I can’t wait for resurgence of precolonial Philippine architecture. And of course for bahay na bato style to be built again and all around the world. The capiz windows certainly are beautiful and the bahay na bato in tropical climate and Mediterranean region would work so well.
Love your family’s house. Would love to have something like that built in Wash. DC. Along embassy row. Capiz double paned windows?
Let’s not get it wrong. It was a trade between Manila, Philippines and Acapulco, Mexico. Mariana is nothing but a footnote, and “Asian” products in the galleon trade were Filipino products, “asian, Chinese, oriental” textiles, dish ware were made by exploited Filipino-Chinese living in Tondo and Binondo, Chinatown Manila. Much of the trade isn’t really a trade- spices, goods such as cane sugar, tobacco, etc were products of imperialist Spain on the backs of Filipino people. Can’t see much of traces of Spain in Philippines now besides nomenclature influence and Catholicism denoting how much of a one way benefit the cultural meeting had. Catholicism has held back the country from growing and taking on non-conservative ideals. Colonial America had more of a lasting impact, neoclassical architecture favored by US for government buildings for example, you can go to the most remote places and City hall buildings are in neoclassical style. Governance influence, official language in English, military and education etc. The US did exploit Philippines as well but for 350 years Spain had Philippines its a shame Spain or Philippines don’t have much to show for it. But we can’t really say how much did Spain take in the formative years they took outright from the indigenous. There was a lot of destruction to indigenous culture imposing Catholicism that much of prespanish history is lost. And marianas? Their language alone borrows from Filipino. Most of their residents can trace their ancestry from Philippines. Genealogically they are Filipino. Philippines have been giving the world service as exports way before the nurses, blue collar workers today, during colonial and imperial time, exploitable indigenous Filipino were hopping on boats filling the work force needed in marianas, Guam, pacific islands, Hawaii, Acapulco. Deckhands in the galleon trade hopped off in Mexico left their working conditions and somehow found their way in Louisiana and established a small fishing village before there was a United States and before Louisiana purchase. Let’s not minimize Philippines like some small insignificant footnote. Filipinos are studying in Georgetown univ, living and interacting daily with the world of architecture featured on this channel. So many Filipino immigrants most have negligible impact as they are employed as the help all around the world. But 2nd gen Filipinos are usually super successful stories in their educational careers, taking on start ups, business stories, and even getting into politics, building wealth. I sat gen 2 are silent because they so badly need to be accepted and try hard to assimilate. But gen 3 and gen 4, they will seek their cultural heritage identity and will be an international community to be reckoned with..
For more history on this architectural style search vigan, Philippines and las casas filipinas de acuzar. I can’t wait for resurgence of precolonial Philippine architecture. And of course for bahay na bato style to be built again and all around the world. The capiz windows certainly are beautiful and the bahay na bato in tropical climate and Mediterranean region would work so well.