Arquitectura de puentes en la Nueva España / Guillermo Boils.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boils, Guillermo, author.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Civil engineering--Mexico--History.

Civil engineering.

Bridges--Mexico--Design and construction--History.

Bridges.

Physical Description:

385 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Primera edición.

Place of Publication:

Ciudad de México : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Arquitectura, 2022.

Language Note:

In Spanish.

Summary:

The studies on the engineering infrastructure of New Spain, are partial and only specialists handle it.In Mexico many colonial bridges, boulevards, dams, walls, bastions, aqueducts, pavements, sidewalks, etc., remain forgotten. Architect Guillermo Boils is surprised that, despite this abandonment, so many bridges are still standing and, what is more remarkable, are still in use. This book is the product of the intellectual search of the cyclist Boils, who twenty-four years has studied, documented, went through and measured them in an effort to rescue them. Juan Ignacio del Cueto states in his presentation "How are they and how to distinguish the bridges of semicircular arch vault, the lowered, those of pointed arches, the escarzanos, those of unequal arches?, and not only the so-called "factory" or the "bridges of the Devil"? Where can they be seen? How do they work structurally? What is its geometry like? What are tajamares? What was a colonial cofferdam and how does it work? What were the most used materials? What is your skilled and unskilled workforce? What are its most frequent damages? Whoever reads the book will find the answers to the previous questions and many others but, above all - and that is its third value - it will awaken their curiosity and will make them raise new doubts.".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-384)

ISBN:

9786073061841

6073061846

OCLC:

1358888041