Exterior passageway used in Mexican and Southwestern U.S. architecture
Zaguan refers to a house plan configuration where a central passageway leads from a front door to a patio or a courtyard. This is found in historic houses in Mexico and in the southwestern U.S.[1] Usually rooms are one deep, with each facing the street or the courtyard. "Zaguan" may properly refer to the passageway, but sometimes refers to the complex as a whole.
A zaguán is a space immediately before, or behind the front door of a house or palace that serves as a vestibule to the main entrance. It is often covered, but otherwise open to the elements, and provides direct access from the street to the central courtyard beyond. Being partly outdoors, and at street level, it is frequently used like a mud room, and to stow carriages or cars, or access the service area without going through the house. The zaguán is common, especially in traditional houses and other buildings, throughout Spain and all Hispanic countries. The word comes from the Arabic "istawán" or "usṭuwān[ah]."[citation needed]
Zaguan at Georgia O'Keeffe House
Examples include:
Ortiz House in Yuma, Arizona
Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio, Abiquiú, New Mexico.
Zaguan refers to a house plan configuration where a central passageway leads from a front door to a patio or a courtyard. This is found in historic houses...
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window restoration and maintenance of historic gardens. The monthly Salon El Zaguan lectures offer speakers on diverse topics of interest to Foundation members...
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settling just south of the Caucasus ridge, in the South Caucasus. https://zaguan.unizar.es/record/60448 Report about Census of population 2011 of Aragonese...
full-size door knockers, opens into a zaguan, featuring four stone-carved segmental arches with a stone floor, in the zaguan to the right and left, there are...
Viviendas de 2011 (in Aragonese). Zaragoza. ISBN 978-84-16723-25-6 – via zaguan.unizar.es.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Languages...
cupola/turret frequently found on 19th-century North American coastal houses. Zaguan A passageway of a central passage plan house, or the complex as a whole...
combinations of moldings. The primary entryway to the building was an open arched zaguán which served as a central entry hall / breezeway which connected to the...
2020. Andi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) https://zaguan.unizar.es/record/60448 Report about Census of population 2011 of Aragonese...
has toured extensively in Europe, Japan and the US. Suena Flamenco (1998) Zaguán (2001) Desglaç (2005) Tierra de Calma (2006), with Juan Carlos Romero Coplas...
lived; it would be reached through a grand wooden staircase rising from the zaguan, a carriageway running from a huge wooden entrance door on the ground floor...
or courtyard. It originally consisted of two separate wings joined by a zaguan, or covered passageway, which was enclosed in the 1950s to create a foyer...
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serve as the focal point of the courtyard upon reaching the house. The zaguan serves as the receiving area for the visitors of the museum, featuring information...
(زغلول) [zaɣluːl] (listen) with the same meaning. zagaya (or azagaya) zagua zaguán: Vestibule, foyer, entry-way. From Andalusian Arabic ʾisṭiwān (إِسْطِوَان)...
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other countries such as Argentina and Peru. His most celebrated book is El zaguán de aluminio, which was first written in 1921 but published in 1982. The...
been an active proponent of open access policies through the Zaguán digital repository. Zaguán provides access to a broad range of digitized documents from...
Cesár Ramírez. He is the creator and editor of a magazine called Desde el Zaguán which gives non-professional writers in the area a chance to publish their...
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