| Title: |
Speaking the same language. City culture and fortified architecture between Europe and Latin America. Parlare la stessa lingua. La cultura della città e l'architettura fortificata fra Europa e America Latina. Hablar un mismo idioma. La cultura urbana y la arquitectura fortificada entre Europa y Latinoamérica. |
| Authors: |
Annalisa Dameri |
| Contributors: |
Dameri A., Giordano R., Gron S., Mellano P., Rodelo Torres L.M., Rossi Gonzalez C. J.; Dameri, Annalisa |
| Publisher Information: |
Politecnico di Torino; ITA; Torino |
| Publication Year: |
2018 |
| Collection: |
PORTO@iris (Publications Open Repository TOrino - Politecnico di Torino) |
| Subject Terms: |
urban history; city plan; storia della città; ingegneri militari; Latino America; cartografia storica; disegni; città; fortificazioni; età moderna; Battista Antonelli; Cartagena |
| Description: |
Many architects and military engineers sent to the Americas between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries created projects and construction sites. Bolstered by the experience of what they had already studied and trialled, they conveyed to the New World the architectural and urban culture matured in Europe in previous decades. The geographical context and the orography of the endless territories were definitely new, but the necessities of war and the requirements of defence were similar. The military strategies and the rules for designing fortified elements were related: in both Europe and the Americas, engineers designed referring to the same treatises and aware of the same rules. The engineers and architects were faced with the difficult task of designing new cities, building fortifications, roads, buildings: they very soon became mediators of modern city culture, matured and rooted in the “old continent”. The fortified cities underwent the same development projects, and the fortifications were modified bit by bit as the war gradually introduced more sophisticated weapons. Thousands of kilometres away from Europe, engineers and architects had similar backgrounds and objectives: Italians, Spaniards and Flemings moved between different sites, designing fortified architectures drawing on ballistic, geometrical, technical-constructive and formal lexical rules deriving from common knowledge. Verbal or textual language was replaced by the designs and by the built architectures that, in turn, became part of shared knowledge. Many engineers and architects, independently from their land of origin and from the country to which they belonged, spoke the same language. Los numerosos arquitectos e ingenieros enviados entre los siglos XVI y XVIII a las Américas abordan proyectos y obras de construcción valiéndose de la experiencia de lo ya estudiado y experimentado en Europa, y vehiculan hacia el Nuevo Mundo la cultura arquitectónica y urbana perfeccionada en décadas anteriores. El contexto geográfico y la orografía ... |
| Document Type: |
book part |
| File Description: |
STAMPA |
| Language: |
English; Italian; Spanish; Castilian |
| Relation: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isbn/9788885745025; ispartofbook:The culture of the city. La cultura della città. La cultura de la ciudad; firstpage:49; lastpage:63; numberofpages:15; https://hdl.handle.net/11583/2704446 |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/11583/2704446 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.33D1E44C |
| Database: |
BASE |