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Architectura mechanica : la profesión y el oficio / Xavier Cortés Rocha.
Fine Arts Library NA1996 C67 2016 1 v. + booklet
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cortés Rocha, Xavier, author.
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Architectura Mechanica (Mexico City, Mexico).
- Architectural practice--Mexico--Mexico City--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.
- Architectural practice.
- History.
- Mexico--Mexico City.
- Architectural practice--Mexico--Mexico City--History--18th century--Sources.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 166 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 32 cm + one booklet (22 pages)
- Edition:
- Edición facsimilar.
- Language Note:
- In Spanish.
- Summary:
- In the present book, architect Cortés Rocha analyzes and reinterprets the 18th century anonymous manscript "Architectura Mechanica" on how architects, especially in the 18th century, tried to claim the character of their profession as a liberal, scientific and artistic art. This treatise presents the development of the forms of the architectural exercise, the measurement systems, length, surface, volume and weight, the construction materials, the different actors in the process and the possible authors are examined. "The author of "Architectura Mechanica" regreted that, being architecture a liberal art, it was considered mechanical art, subject to extra-labor obligations that he considered infamous of such a profession, such as carrying an image in the (religious) procession or the fact that the guild (gremio) should be part of the viceregal militia and be subject to the militarized regime in case of war." (HKB Translation) --Page 26. The original document is part of the collections of the Reserved Fund of the National Library of Mexico and due to its historical importance, its access is restricted.
- Contents:
- Presentación / Marcos Mazari Hiriar
- Prólogo
- Introducción
- La Architectura Mechanica: El ejercicio de la arquitectura ¿oficio o arte liberal?
- Propuestas que hace el autor
- Términos, gobierno y práctica: Medidas y peso, Materiales de construcción, Espacios y elementos de las edificaciones, Sistemas constructivos, Modo de tirar una pared, Diversos calculos, Terminos de laq montea, Obras de Talla y piedra. Portadas, Malas costumbres de esta arte, Los operarios, Edificios de especial nota
- Instrumentos y libros que ha de hacer un arquitecto
- Método y práctica de hacer una tasación
- El espacio profesional de los maestros
- Maestros mayores: La maestria mayor de las bras de la Santa Iglesia Catedral, Maestro Mayor de la nobilisima ciudad y obras del Real Sesague de Huehuetoca, Maestro Mayor del Estado, Maestro sw Canerias, Maestros de Conventos
- Examen de un arquitecto: El examen profesional, Los contenidos del examen es el siguiente (segun las ordenanzas), El examen en la "Architectura Mechanica", Dos examenes, La carta de Examen
- Extracto de varios sitios con sus precios
- Adenda
- SObre el autor del manuscrito
- Lorenzo Rodríguez
- Manuel ALvarez de la Cadena
- Ildefonso de Iniesta Bejarano y Duran
- Horizonte temporal
- El origen del autor
- El latin y los latines. Uvolfio y Ulpiano
- La experiencia e intereses profesionales del autor
- La autoria
- Epilogo
- El fin de los gremios
- La Academia de San Carlos y el cambio de paradigma
- Manuscrito.
- Notes:
- The current volume contains a facsimile reprint of the original "Architectura Mechanica".
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-165)
- ISBN:
- 9786073026048
- 6073026048
- OCLC:
- 1151872263
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