“A Palace for the Maize”: The Granary of Granaditas in Guanajuato and Neoclassical Civic Architecture in Colonial Mexico
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Construction of the new granary or alhóndiga in the Mexican city of Guanajuato began in the winter of 1798. Promoted by Intendant Juan Antonio de Riaño, this building would became a singular example of civic architecture, of Neoclassicism, and of buen gusto (good taste) in late-eighteenth-century Mexico. The history of this strong and beautiful building, with “nothing superfluous” in the words of the famous architect Manuel Tolsá, involves some of the most talented and distinguished characters of late Colonial Mexico, including Viceroys Branciforte and Iturrigaray, Intendant Riaño, and architects Juan de Dios de Trinidad Pérez, Francisco Ortiz de Castro, and José del Mazo y Avilés. Though this larger and better-equipped granary was clearly needed, its construction raised some controversy, particularly among those who considered it a tremendous expenditure for the city that was in need of other infrastructure and civic architecture. Juan Vicente Alamán, former alderman of the city of Guanajuato, expressed his noticeable disagreement with this monumental building, which he described as a “palace for the maize.”
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".