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rev_number: 17
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creators_name: Fuentes González, Paula
creators_name: Huerta Fernández, Santiago
creators_id: paula.fuentes@gmail.com
creators_id: santiago.huerta@upm.es
title: Crossed-arch vaults in late-gothic and early Renaissance vaulting: a problem in building technology transfer
publisher: Construction History Society of America
rights: by-nc-nd
ispublished: pub
subjects: arquitectura
subjects: construccion
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
keywords: Bóvedas nervadas, transferencia de técnicas constructivas, Leonardo, gótico tardío
Rib Masonry Vaults, Building technology transfer, Leonardo, Late-Gothic vaulting
abstract: Crossed-arch vaults are a particular type of ribbed vaults. Their main feature is that the ribs
that form the vault are intertwined, forming polygons or stars and leaving an empty space in the middle. The firsts appear in Córdoba in the second half of the 10th Century. Afterwards, the type diffused through Spain and North Africa, 11th_13th Centuries. These vaults reappear in Armenia in the 13th Century. In the 14th and 15th Century a few examples are found both in England (Durham, Raby) and Central Europe (Prague, Landshut, Vienna). At about the same time, Leonardo da Vinci produced designs for the Tiburio (Ciborium) of Milan cathedral with a cross-arched structure and proposed tests to assess the strength; he also, made use of the same pattern of vault for Renaissance centralized churches. Eventually, the type can be tracked through the 17th (Guarini) and 18th (Vittone) Centuries, until Spanish post war architecture in the 1940-60s (Moya). Some questions arose, which so far, have not been answered. How was it possible that a particular type of vault had such enormous geographical spread? How was it transmitted from Córdoba to the Caucasus? The matter is one of transfer of knowledge, ideas, and technology; it relates both aesthetics and construction.
date_type: published
date: 2015-06
volume: 2
place_of_pub: Chicago
pages: 8
event_title: Fifth International Congress on Construction History
event_location: Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois
event_dates: 3-7 junio 2015
event_type: conference
institution: Arquitectura
department: Estructuras_2014
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-1-329-15031-7
book_title: Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on Construction History (3-7 June 2015, Chicago, Illinois)
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citation:   Fuentes González, Paula and Huerta Fernández, Santiago  (2015).  Crossed-arch vaults in late-gothic and early Renaissance vaulting: a problem in building technology transfer.  In: "Fifth International Congress on Construction History", 3-7 junio 2015, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois. ISBN 978-1-329-15031-7.    
document_url: https://oa.upm.es/36242/7/X-2678_PDF.%20Fuentes%2C%20Huerta_2015_Crossed-arch.pdf