BY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BENJAMIN IBARRA-SEVILLA
Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry is an innovative work that allows us to understand a bright moment in Mexican architecture from a unique perspective. The work presented in this book identifies and analyzes three sixteenth-century buildings constructed in the Oaxaca Mixteca which are covered with complex ribbed vaults. These three masterpieces of architecture present the same rigor and precision as their European counterparts in the great Gothic cathedrals.
Using digital technologies, Prof. Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla addresses the challenge of representing and explaining the details and intricacies applied in the design, development, and construction of the lush vaults and the stone pieces that shape them. The site responds to a rising global interest that emerged from the need to understand these buildings through the eyes of construction science, focusing on information relevant to the architects and engineers interested in technical aspects and the history of construction. This is one of the few books dealing with the study of these buildings in the context of the transfer of knowledge of construction technology and it is the first of its kind that systematically addresses the relationship between geometry, stone stereotomy, and twenty-first-century forms of architectural visualization for sixteenth-century buildings
ISBN-13: 9786070257063
ISBN-10: 6070257065
