Title & Author:

The art of vaulting : design and construction in the Mediterranean Gothic / Paula Fuentes, Anke Wunderwald (eds.).

Publication:

Basel : Birkhaüser, [2019]

Description:

234 pages, 4 unnumbered folded page of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimile, plans ; 29 cm

Series:

Kulturelle und technische Werte historischer Bauten ; Band 2

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Wider, lighter, faster: building vaults in the Medieval Mediterranean / Arturo Zaragozá, Fernando Vegas -- Mediterranean paths: the construction of vaults in Southern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia (15th-16th centuries) / Emanuela Garofalo, Marco Roasior Nobile -- How to design and build complex rib vaults from A to Z: principles, practices, and geometric processors in international late Gothic / David Wendland -- Design details of Gothic vaults in Joseph Gelabert's treatise on Stonecutting / Enrique Rabasa Díaz -- Vaults of Mallorca Cathedral: rising to a technical challenge / Paula Fuentes, Anke Wunderwald -- Vaults of the Obra Nova in the Cathedral of Mallorca (c. 1573-1587): written sources about chronology, patronage and construction / Joan Domenge i Mesquida -- Construction analysis of Gothic vaults in the Cathedral of Mallorca / Guillermo Reynés -- Catherdral of Palma de Mallorca, a wonder of equilibrium: Rubió i Bellver's equilibrium analysis of 1912 / Santiago Huerta.

Summary:

Some of the highest and widest vault constructions produced in the Middle Ages are located in the Mediterranean area. Outstanding buildings with remarkable vaults and buttressing, such as the Cathedral of Majorca, are evidence of a lively technology transfer and contemporary developments. International experts trace the complex processes of Medieval design and construction. They research structural patterns in the processes involved, analyze building methods, and relate their findings to historic documents. The approach of combining field research with the study of literary sources provides a fresh look at the impressive monuments and shines new light on technological advances and construction technology of the time.

ISBN:

9783035618242 (hardcover)
3035618240 (hardcover)

Subject:

Gelabert, Joseph 1621-1668
Vaults (Architecture), Gothic Mediterranean Region.
Vaults (Architecture), Medieval Mediterranean Region.
Architecture, Late Gothic Mediterranean Region.
Architecture, Medieval Mediterranean Region.
Architecture, Late Gothic.
Architecture, Medieval.
Vaults (Architecture), Gothic.
Vaults (Architecture), Medieval.
Architektur
Bemessung
Gewölbe
Gotik
Kirchenbau
Geschichte
Mediterranean Region.
Kathedrale Palma de Mallorca
Mittelmeerraum
Südeuropa

Added entries:

Fuentes González, Paula, editor.
Wunderwald, Anke, editor.

Design and construction in the Mediterranean Gothic

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305539
Call No.: BIB 251505
Status: Available