Francisco Javier Navarro Jiménez holds a degree in Human Geography and a master's degree in International History, and is currently a doctoral candidate in Architecture at the Universidad Michoacana. He is a professor of Geography, Cartography and Historical Geography at the Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora. He has specialized in urban geography, urban history, historicist architecture and research of historical sources for the study of cities. His latest publications are "Las aguas de Chapultepec: historia, proyectos de aprovechamiento y arquitectura, 1888-1952", Bitácora Arquitectura Magazine (unam, 2022); author of several chapters in the books Architects and artists in the Italian diaspora in Latin America (Rome, 2021); Adamo Boari (1863-1928).

Reseñas críticas

Neogótico en Jalisco. Guía básica para la apreciación del entorno cultural edificado

Martín Checa-Artasu2021 ESARQ/Arquitónica, col. Corrientes Arquitectónicas, Guadalajara, 207 pp.

Toward a Geographic and Historic Interpretation of Neo-gothic Architecture in Jalisco

  • Francisco Javier Navarro Jiménez

The book Neogothic in Jalisco. Guía básica para la apreciación del entorno cultural edificado, by Martín Checa-Artasu, presents an interesting investigation of the historical development, typologies and geographic distribution of neo-Gothic architecture in the Mexican state of Jalisco, as a cultural phenomenon of adaptation and reinterpretation on a regional scale of a global architectural trend. To address the subject, the author adopts an interdisciplinary perspective in which time and the territorial diffusion of ideas about the design and symbolism of Gothic Revival are central when interpreting the current panorama of Jalisco's neo-Gothic architecture built between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.