Editing Spanish Colonial Revival architecture (section)

===Mexico===
[[File:ASc005-Na Zocaio Plac.jpg|thumb|right|The neocolonial [[Federal District buildings#Edificio de Gobierno building|companion building]] (1940s) to the colonial Mexico City palace of the [[ayuntamiento]]]]
[[File:Villa in Lomas de Chapultepec.jpg|thumb|right|[[Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes|INBA]]-catalogued house built in the ''colonial californiano'' style in [[Lomas de Chapultepec]] in [[Mexico City]] (1930s)]]

{{See also|New Spanish Baroque}} The Spanish Colonial Revival of Mexico has a distinct origin from the style developed in the United States. Following the [[Mexican Revolution]], there was a wave of nationalism that emphasized national culture, including in architecture. The neocolonial style arose as a response to European [[Eclecticism in architecture|eclecticism]] (favored during the [[Porfiriato]]). The 1915 book ''La patria y la arquitectura nacional'' by architect [[Federico E. Mariscal]] ([[:es:Federico Ernesto Mariscal Piña|es]]) was influential in advocating [[New Spain|viceregal]] architecture as integral to national identity.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sluis|first1=Ageeth|title=Deco Body, Deco City: Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939|date=2016|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=9780803293922|page=194|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3iPnCgAAQBAJ&q=la+patria+y+la+arquitectura+nacional+neocolonial&pg=PA194|access-date=24 May 2017|language=en}}</ref> During the government of President [[Venustiano Carranza]] (serving 1917 to 1920), tax exemptions were offered to those that built houses in a colonial style.<ref name="Moreno">{{cite book|last1=Moreno|first1=Gilberto Romero|title=Tendencias actuales de la arquitectura mexicana|date=2005|publisher=USON|isbn=9789706892508|pages=21–25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yVwwDxHK4AsC&q=arquitectura+neocolonial+tezontle&pg=PA21|access-date=24 May 2017|language=es}}</ref> In the early 1920s there was a surge of houses built with [[Plateresque]] elements; such as [[Grotesque (architecture)|grotesques]], [[pinnacle]]s and [[mixtilinear arches]] ([[:es:Arco mixtilíneo|es]]).<ref name="Moreno" />

Secretary of Education [[José Vasconcelos]] (who shaped the cultural philosophy of the post-Revolution government) was an active promoter of neocolonial architecture.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Burian|first1=Edward R.|title=Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico|date=1997|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=9780292708532|page=66|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lKnGoy3DHAMC&q=Jos%C3%A9+Vasconcelos+neocolonial&pg=PA66|access-date=24 May 2017|language=en}}</ref>  Traditional materials such as [[tezontle]], [[Cantera (stone)|cantera]] and [[Talavera pottery#Usage|Talavera tiles]] were incorporated into neocolonial buildings.<ref name="Moreno" />

The colonial-era [[National Palace (Mexico)|National Palace]] was significantly altered between 1926 and 1929: the addition of a third floor and changes to the facade. The modifications were done in a manner corresponding to the original style. Similarly, the colonial Mexico City [[Federal District buildings|government building]] was remodeled in the 1920s and a neocolonial companion building was built in the 1940s.

====Colonial californiano====
The style, as developed in the United States, came full circle to its geographic point of inspiration as in the late 1930s, single-family houses were built in [[Mexico City]]'s then-new upscale neighborhoods in what is known in Mexico as ''colonial californiano'' ('''Californian Colonial'''). That is, a Mexican reinterpretation of the California interpretation of Spanish Colonial Revival.<ref>{{cite book|title=Artifacts of Revolution: Architecture, Society, and Politics in Mexico City|author=Patrice Elizabeth Olsenand|date=11 September 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BG4iQvOQ8isC&pg=PA202|page=202|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn=9780742557314}}</ref> Many houses of this style can still be seen in the [[Colonia Nápoles]], [[Condesa]], [[Polanco]] and [[Lomas de Chapultepec]] areas of Mexico City. The [[Pasaje Polanco]] shopping court is an example of the style's application in commercial architecture.