Los vitrales en los templos neogóticos de México

Abstract

Gothic cathedrals provided on their geometry and architecture coincidence with pinnacles tower erected as endless stairs to a dawn-lit sky. Provided its grandeur in all directions of the city, his memory slips. The neo-gothic temples in Mexico erected in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to a scale to suit their modern performances, respond to the majesty, the beauty and significance of its predecessors. Now in a new urban, social, economic and political context, build urban architectural landscape of a city fraught with new symbols. Subject to claim of symmetry and gleaming stained glass light and splendor of stillness and harmony radial witness a troubled government-church relationship. The text presents advances of the research project "Religious Architecture" examines the urbanarchitectural relationship in the sense of belonging, the habit of the people in the churches and through the windows. The aim is to understand the origin of modern city that aspires to new urban symbols, and is intended to guide the faithful as possible supporters of the temples of a renewed full landscape of postmodern heavenly light. For this five neo-gothic temples are discussed in the central, western and northern Mexico