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Coixtlahuaca
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Yanhuitlan
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Oaxaca City, Centro San Pablo
Mexico City, MUCA UNAM
Minneapolis MN, University of Minnesota
Morelia City, Centro Clavijero
Guadalajara City, ESARQ
Austin TX, School of Architecture
Cd. Juarez, Centro Cultural Paso del Norte & UACJ
San Antonio Texas
Mixtecos Ñuu Dzahi. Señores de la lluvia
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Mixtec stonecutting artistry

Home
Research
Achievement of Mixtec Hands
History
Methodology
3D Printing
Stereotomy
The Mixtec Vaults
Coixtlahuaca
Teposcolula
Yanhuitlan
Exhibition
Oaxaca City, Centro San Pablo
Mexico City, MUCA UNAM
Minneapolis MN, University of Minnesota
Morelia City, Centro Clavijero
Guadalajara City, ESARQ
Austin TX, School of Architecture
Cd. Juarez, Centro Cultural Paso del Norte & UACJ
San Antonio Texas
Mixtecos Ñuu Dzahi. Señores de la lluvia
About
Contact
Author
Credits
News
Buy the book
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Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry is an innovative work that allows 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 Oaxacan Mixteca which area covered with complex ribbed vaults. These three masterpieces of architecture present the same rigor and precision of their European counterparts in the great Gothic cathedrals. Using digital technologies, Prof. Benjamin Ibarra 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 book responds to a rising global interest 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.

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