The article examines, from a technical and historical-artistic perspective, the designs and construction processes of several bridges built in Herrera de Duero (Valladolid, Spain) between 1841 and 1875. The aim is to understand the national significance of these examples of 19th-century Spanish civil engineering, in which some of the most important Spanish engineers participated - Enrique Alau, Andres Mendizabal, Carlos Campuzano, Lucio del Valle, Victor Marti, Angel Mayo, Jose de Echeverria, and others-. Methodologically, the history of these bridges has been reconstructed by consulting previously unpublished documentation preserved in various archives. Virtually unknown, we demonstrate that the origin of the straight metal spans, still in operation today, lies in the designs of the famous iron bridge study commission chaired by del Valle (1863). We know few examples of this today.
The wooden vaults of Lima Cathedral are a topic of relevance from a construction perspective and from the earthquake-resistant architectural criteria that Lima's master builders considered in their design. These vaults have only been studied from the perspective of art history, focusing on their history and the definition of forms and styles. Specifically, this article focuses on the constructive study of the planked timber vaults within the cathedral complex of Lima. Research was conducted in institutional archive repositories and architectural surveys, where material was found to examine the master builders' approaches to the reconstruction of Lima Cathedral's vaults after the successive earthquakes that occurred in the 17th century
The colonisation villages built in Spain during the mid-twentieth century as part of a policy for domestic agrarian colonisation have been the subject of numerous studies on their architecture and urban planning as a result. This paper aims to identify the transfers that occurred between the pre-existing farmsteads or 'cortijos' and the colonisation villages, which are two ostensibly disparate models of rural architecture. The research is based on a comparison of plans drawn up from the original ones of farmsteads and colonisation villages linked to them in a paradigmatic area of the province of Granada. The findings indicate that the construction of the new villages resulted in the demolition or rehabilitation of a significant number of important farmsteads. Furthermore, it demonstrates the interrelationship between domestic and agricultural uses articulated around the courtyard in both the farmstead and the village, highlighting a surprising equivalence given the contrasting scales and eras of both architectures.
In CIMAD 11, Pedro Hurtado-Valdez presented an interesting paper on the myths and facts of the construction of Castilian wooden vaults between the 17th and 18th centuries, attempting to refute the belief that the genesis of wooden vaults in Spain and Latin America had its antecedents in the construction of ships in the Basque regions, and in the naval experience of some writers of previous centuries. A more in-depth study of the geometry of the structure of the wooden vaulted roofs of Basque churches of the 15th and 16th centuries, catalogued in Ars Lignea in 1996 by Alberto Santana and other authors, was an unfinished task that had hardly been addressed since that publication. In this article, we want to present our conclusions on the veracity of this hypothesis by comparing the codo de ribera, a standard measurement used in the naval construction from 1590 onwards, with the dimensions of the pairs of arches that form the barrel vaults of four churches analysed by laser scanner in the Gorbea valleys: Santa María de Goikuria, San Bartolomé de Olarte, San Pedro de Zaloa and San Lorenzo de Otzerimendi.
Las bóvedas de madera labradas en la catedral de Lima constituyen un tema de relevancia desde el punto de vista constructivo y de los criterios de arquitectura sismorresistente que los alarifes de Lima plantearon en su diseño. Estas bóvedas sólo han sido estudiadas desde la perspectiva de la historia del arte, habiéndose centrado en su historia y la definición de formas y estilos. Precisamente el artículo trata del estudio constructivo de las bóvedas encamonadas dentro del conjunto catedralicio de Lima. Se realizó investigación en repositorios de archivos institucionales y levantamiento de campo, donde se halló material que ayudó a observar los planteamientos de los alarifes con respecto a la reconstrucción de las bóvedas de la catedral de Lima después de los sucesivos terremotos que se dieron en el siglo XVII.
