Architectural Sources
124. "Among the Mendicant builders, the incidence of formal architectural education, low everywhere in Europe at the period, remained very rare in Mexico. . . . Architectural education, then, among the Mendicants, remained highly informal, guided by no theory other than that which could be assimilated from reading and from experienced men in civilization and monastic life. The new quantum that must not be overlooked, however, is the presence in Mexico after 1550 of men bearing an academic, bookformed standard of classicizing taste in architecture." Kubler, Mexican Architecture , p. 128.
125. Ibid., p. 104. [BACK]
124. "Among the Mendicant builders, the incidence of formal architectural education, low everywhere in Europe at the period, remained very rare in Mexico. . . . Architectural education, then, among the Mendicants, remained highly informal, guided by no theory other than that which could be assimilated from reading and from experienced men in civilization and monastic life. The new quantum that must not be overlooked, however, is the presence in Mexico after 1550 of men bearing an academic, bookformed standard of classicizing taste in architecture." Kubler, Mexican Architecture , p. 128.
125. Ibid., p. 104. [BACK]
129. Manucy, The Houses of St. Augustine , p. 27. [BACK]
130. Kessell, The Missions of New Mexico , p. 156. [BACK]