Lomas de Chapultepec

Lomas de Chapultepec is a neighborhood ( colonia ) in the borough ( delegación ) Miguel Hidalgo in Mexico City. It is located west of the Bosque de Chapultepec, and is one of the most expensive residential areas of the Mexican capital. About the Paseo de la Reforma, the district is closely connected to the city center.

History

The residential area of ​​Lomas de Chapultepec, Chapultepec Heights originally, was designed in 1922 by the architect José Luis Cuevas.

His original name of the allegedly fathered internationalist, but in practice rather American, attitude of its residents ( many of which are rich foreigners and Mexicans were not around ). Finally, the local villas were much more influenced by the glamor of Hollywood as of traditional Mexican design. (108)

Indeed, has Wheel of Time no longer turn back also in terms of the completed villas, as the national- traditionalist forces nevertheless succeeded in renaming and thus a Spanish names for the quarter. (106 ) It was from the original Chapultepec Heights today Lomas de Chapultepec.

The quarter was from the outset residential area of ​​diplomats, senior officials and members of the old aristocracy. Even former revolutionaries who now occupied a senior position in the government and appreciated the amenities of civic life, could be as early as 1923 in Chapultepec Heights down. (107)

The slope of the nouveau riche to make their houses after the U.S. model, let the national- minded traditionalist circles attention. So criticized an editorial staff member of the magazine El Arquitecto in its first edition: " A lot of houses have emerged, but where is the Mexican house, the house of Mexicans for Mexicans " (109 )

The most severe criticism was sparked by witnesses who rather dismissively denigrated the residential than Kolonialkalifornisch or Hollywood style. So Arturo Sotomayor described the district as " a sort of eczema on the outskirts of the city. " (110 ) Mauricio Gómez Mayorga, at that time a student of architecture, echauffierte to the effect that this style is 1926-1930 " like a cancer throughout the new neighborhoods " has spread. In his view, Mexico could be based on the new European architecture; Instead, it has " the entertainment culture of a colonial hugs, which has developed from the vulgar and uncultured prosperity of Hollywood. " (112 )

Obregón Santacilia described the borrowed by the Hollywood glamor style even as the most terrible of 've ever taken hold in Mexico: a style of magazines was taken without one would have taken the trouble to visit Mexican villages and an identification with the essentials to reach. (113)

The worst, however, was that this development a new capitalist class evoked (114 ) that changed the national identity itself. The new style reflected neither the cause of social justice nor the actual goals of the Mexican Revolution. Instead seemed what happened in Lomas de Chapultepec and other settlements of the nouveau riche to be a reflection of the personal enrichment that were already widespread during the tenure of Porfirio Díaz.