Perez Arroyo, Salvador(Universitat Politècnica de València, 1998-04-06)
[EN] A reflection about the value ot ruins in architecture in revealing the constructive soul ot buildings and the value of the matteric support ot architecture as a means and an end serves as a foreword to explain the ...
Sánchez Hevia, Ginés(Universitat Politècnica de València, 1999-12-21)
[EN] The present rehabilitation works contemplates the building of the Palace as a whole despite the recent additions, so as to avoid, in the words of the architect, the usual doing and undoing which is so common in this ...
Calduch, Juan(Universitat Politècnica de València, 1998-12-20)
[EN] “Both Palladio and Piranesi take up the Roman heritage of ruins in order to extract teachings that affect architectural discipline itself; a discipline that is revealed as quite autonomous and independent of others, ...
Solà-Morales, Ignasi(Universitat Politècnica de València, 1998-04-06)
[EN] The growing parallelism between the perception and the consumer use of theme parks and architectural heritage gives rise to a reflection about the fact that the architectural object has been turned into a museum piece, ...
Fernández Naranjo, Juan A.(Universitat Politècnica de València, 1998-04-06)
[EN] The restoration of the portal of the church of San Juan Bautista corresponds to a type of intervention that has a modest budget but an ambitious rigorism as regards the methodology used. The author explains how the ...
Almagro, Antonio; Orihuela, Antonio(Universitat Politècnica de València, 1997-12-18)
[EN] The Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo is - in the words of the authors of this article- a key building for the analysis of architecture and decoration in the transition of art from the post-Almohad to the Nasrid period. ...
Torsello, B. Paolo(Universitat Politècnica de València, 1999-04-21)
[EN] Torsello is one of the best qualified representatives of the current architectural restoration scene in Italy. In the article below, he sets out in a most persuasive manner the contradictions inherent in would-be ...
Cecchini, Libero(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2000-12-07)
[EN] The restoration of a large medieval fresco situated inside San Zeno Abbey formed part of the interventions performed on this monument in the last two decades, partly described in the previous article. Issues that arose ...
Noguera, Juan Francisco(Universitat Politècnica de València, 1997-12-18)
[EN] The Barón de Ariza’s town house, designed by the architect A. Ferrer, was totally unknown until its rehabilitation as the headquarters of the Valencia Entrepreneurial Confederation. However, the refurbished facade, ...
García Braña, Celestino(Universitat Politècnica de València, 1999-12-21)
[EN] “On 17th June 1995 the roof of the nave and practically all the cloister of the Church of San Francisco in Pontevedra were destroyed by fire. The architect in charge of the restoration works explains the criteria ...
Cuadra Rodríguez, Gerardo(Universitat Politècnica de València, 1998-12-20)
[EN] Few interventions in the last years have raised such a degree of polemic as the one performed on the head of this Cathedral. The main cause of this polemic was the shifting of the splendid Altarpiece by Damián Forment ...
Espinar Moreno, Antonio Luis; López Osorio, José Manuel; Martin Peinado, Beatriz(Universitat Politècnica de València, 1999-04-21)
[EN] The article presents the restoration works on the polychrome trusses of the parish churches of Santa María y San Pedro de Caniles and Santiago de Baza, financed by the Department of Culture of the Junta de Andalucía ...
Cecchini, Libero(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2000-12-07)
[EN] In this article the author explains all the works that have been performed on this outstanding monument over the last twenty years. The restoration of the Romanesque cloister is of great interest because of its variety ...
Kravchenko, Serguéi(Universitat Politècnica de València, 1997-12-18)
[EN] The restoration of the Alvar Aalto Viipuri library, today in russian territory, will be realized by means of collaboration between the Russian Association for the Preservation of Monuments and the Alvar Aalto Foundation. ...
Primo García, Robert(Universitat Politècnica de València, 1997-12-18)
[EN] This text presents the restoration of a single storey church with a chapel between buttresses, with a double hipped roof and a coffered ceiling supported by arches. The author has a look at this typology which is so ...
González, Antoni(Universitat Politècnica de València, 1997-09-06)
[EN] As usual in all architectural interventions practised by SPAL, the works on the church of Castelldefels Castle are the result of a strict methodological analysis of the building and its surroundings, leading to an ...
Roig Salom, José Luis(Universitat Politècnica de València, 1998-04-06)
[EN] The tragic demolition of the church of Santa María de Castellón included the destruction of the statue of the Virgin and Child that presided the tympanum of the north portal. Several fragments rescued by a passer-by ...
Casar Pinazo, Jose Ignacio; Aristoy Albert, Mario J.(Universitat Politècnica de València, 1998-12-20)
[EN] “As though it were a royal palace, the Customs House, magnificent, solid, autonomous, free standing, surrounded by gardens”, as the authors of the article describe it, “arranges one of the most valued scenes of ...