Santiago Huerta Fernández

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Santiago Huerta Fernández

Santiago Huerta Fernández (born July 25, 1955 , Madrid ) is a Spanish architect and historian of civil engineering

youth

Santiago Huerta Fernández was born the son of Fernando Huerta (1917-1995), one of Spain's leading meteorologists, who was a professor of physics at the Faculty of Caminos, Canales y Puertos (civil engineering) of the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros (ETSI) in Madrid.

In 1981, Santiago Huerta Fernández completed his architectural studies at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura (ETSA) of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). With the dissertation Diseño estructural de arcos, bóvedas y cúpulas en España, approx. 1500 approx. 1800 , he received his doctorate from the UPM's ETSA on December 28, 1990 as Doctor Arquitecto ; Huerta received a prize from his alma mater for his dissertation. Since 1993 he has been professor for the design and calculation of structures in teaching and research.

Act

As early as the late 1980s, Huerta dealt intensively with the history of construction technology. In 1989, for example, he and Ricardo Aroca Hernández-Ros, director of UPM's Instituto Juan de Herrera , gave a lecture on masonry domes at the World Congress of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS). It was also Aroca who promoted Huerta's research on the history of building technology in general and the history of vaulted stone structures in particular. Since the mid-1990s, the history of construction technology has established itself at the Instituto Juan de Herrera of the ETSA and has played a leading role in its development as a scientific discipline in an international context - with Huerta as its protagonist.

The year 1996 is of decisive importance for the historiography of construction technology: At Huerta's instigation, the Sociedad Española de Historia de la Construcción was established , which held its first congress in Madrid and has since taken place every two years: A Coruña (1998) , Seville (2000), Cádiz (2005), Burgos (2007), Valencia (2009), Santiago de Compostela (2011), Madrid (2013), Segovia (2015), Donostia-San Sebastián (2017) and Soria (2019) . At the suggestion of Huerta, together with the national Spanish congresses on the history of building technology, the I. Congreso Internacional Hispanoamericano de Historia de la Construcción took place in Segovia (2015) and the II Hispano-American congress on the history of building technology took place in Donostia-San Sebastián (2017) 2019 in the form of the III. Congress in Mexico City (2019) became independent - Huerta also made a significant contribution to this organizational expansion of the history of construction technology.

Huerta ran the secretariat of the Spanish Society for the History of Building Technology until 2003 and has served as President since then. With the edition of the congress files of this society, the Actas del Primer Congreso Nacional de Historia de la Construcción 1996, Huerta founded under the title Textos sobre Teorίa e Historia de las Construcciónes a unique series of publications on the history of building technology in which numerous classical and current texts appear for the development of this historical discipline are relevant in research and teaching - such as monographs by Auguste Choisy , Rafael Guastavino , Jacques Heyman , Jean-Rodolphe Perronet , Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and George Edmund Street . The establishment of the history of structural engineering in Spain and its international reputation would not have been possible without the support of the Instituto Juan de Herrera of ETSA and the Centro de Estudios Históricos de Obras Públicas y Urbanismo (CEHOPU).

The First International Congress on Construction History , which took place from January 20 to 24, 2003 at the ETSA's Insituto Juan de Herrera, was also the result of an initiative by Huerta; the series of congresses was successfully continued in Cambridge (2006), Cottbus (2009), Paris (2012), Chicago (2015) and Brussels (2018) - the 7th International Congress on Construction History will take place in Lisbon in 2021 .

Huerta's talent for languages ​​greatly facilitated the internationalization of the history of structural engineering. He worked with numerous researchers: Bill Addis, Antonio Becchi, James Campbell, Robert Carvais, Bernard Espion, Federico Foce, Ignacio Javier Gil-Crespo, Uta Hassler , Jaques Heyman, Stefan M. Holzer, Karl-Eugen Kurrer , Werner Lorenz (historian) and John Ochsendorf. For example, Huerta and Kurrer not only published about the history of load-bearing theory and arched stone structures, but also supported him with his monograph on the history of structural engineering. Huerta made his knowledge available to the practice of upgrading vaulted stone structures in historically significant church buildings in the form of expert reports.

Huerta is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Architectural Science Review (since 2004), the Journal of Architectural Heritage (since 2005) and the International Journal of Construction History (since 2012). For his services to the historiography of construction technology, Huerta has received several awards a. a. with the Telford Gold Medal (2011).

Santiago Huerta Fernández is not only the Spiritus Rector of building technology history in Spain, but also on an international level.

Publications

  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago: Mechanics of masonry vaults: The equilibrium approach. Historical Constructions. Possibilities of numerical and experimental techniques . In: Proceedings of the 3rd. International seminar. Guimaraes 7-9, November 2001, ed. v. PB Lourenço and P. Roca. Guimaraes: Universidade do Minho, pp. 47-69, ISBN 972-8692-01-3 .
  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago (ed.) (2001). Las bóvedas de Guastavino en America . Madrid: Instituto Juan de Herrera, CEHOPU, COAC, UPV, Avery Library, 2001, ISBN 84-9728-007-5 (This book received the COAM Prize for Cultural Diffussion in 2003, Official College of Architects of Madrid, COAM).
  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago: The medieval 'scientia' of structures: the rules of Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón . In: Towards a History of Construction, ed. v. A. Becchi, F. Foce, M. Corradi, et al. O. Pedemonte. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag 2002, pp. 567-585, ISBN 3-7643-6880-2 .
  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago: The mechanics of timbrel vaults: a historical outline . In: Essays in the History of Mechanics, ed. v. A. Becchi, F. Foce, M. Corradi, et al. O. Pedemonte (eds). Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag 2003, pp. 87-133, ISBN 3-7643-1476-1 .
  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago: Arcos, bóvedas y cúpulas. Geometría y equilibrio en el cálculo tradicional de estructuras de fábrica . Madrid: Instituto Juan de Herrera 2004, ISBN 84-9728-129-2 .
  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago: Thomas Young's theory of the arch: His analysis of Telford's design for an arch of 600 feet span over the Thames in London . In: Essays in the History of the Theory of Structures, in honor of Jacques Heyman, ed. v. S. Huerta. Madrid: Instituto Juan de Herrera, CEHOPU, 2005, pp. 189-234, ISBN 84-7790-416-2 .
  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago: Structural design in the work of Gaudí . In: Architectural Science Review, Vol. 49, 2006, n ° 4, pp. 324-339.
  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago: Oval Domes: History, Geometry and Mechanics . In: Nexus Network Journal. Architecture and Mathematics, Vol. 9, 2007, n ° 4, pp. 324-339.
  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago: The Analysis of Masonry Architecture: A Historical Approach . In: Architectural Science Review, Vol. 51, 2008, n ° 4, pp. 297-328.
  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago: The Debate about the Structural Behavior of Gothic Vaults: From Viollet-le-Duc to Heyman. In: Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Construction History, Cottbus, 20–24 May 2009, Vol 2, ed by Karl-Eugen Kurrer, Werner Lorenz u. Volker Wetzk. Berlin: NEUNPLUS1 2009, pp. 837-844, ISBN 978-3-936033-31-1 .
  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago: The safety of masonry buttresses . In: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers (Issue EH1), Vol. 163, 2010, pp. 3-24. (This paper received the Gold Telford Medal 2010 of the Institution of Civil Engineers. London)
  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago: Technical challenges in the construction of gothic vaults: The gothic theory of structural design . In: Construction Techniques in the Age of Historicism. From Theories of Gothic Structures to Building Sites in the 19th Century, ed. v. Uta Hassler, Christoph Rauhut u. Santiago Huerta. Munich: Hirmer 2012, pp. 162-195, ISBN 978-3-7774-3901-3 .
  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago: Wedges and plate-bandes: mechanical theories after De la Hire . In: L'architrave, le plancher, la plate-forme. Nouvelle Histoire de la construction. Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes 2012, pp. 405-435, ISBN 978-2-88074-893-7 .
  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago: Designing by 'Expérience': Lecreulx model tests for the design of the abutments of the bridge of Fouchard . In: Masonry Structures: Between Mechanics and Architecture, ed. v. D. Aita, O. Pedemonte, et al. K. Williams. Heidelberg, New York: Birkhäuser 2015, pp. 21-47, ISBN 978-3-319-13002-6 .
  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago; Gil-Crespo, Ignacio Javier: Construction History in Spain. The disciplin's foundation . In: L'Histoire de la construction / Construction History. Relevé d'un chantier européen / Survey of a European Building Site. Sous la direction d'Antonio Becchi, Robert Carvais et Joël Sakarovitch, Tome I, pp. 387-423. Paris: Classique Garnier 2018.
  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago: The Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca, a Wonder of Equilibrium . Rubio i Bellver's Equilibrium Analysis of 1912. In: The Art of Vaulting. Design and Construction in the Mediterranean Gothic (Cultural and Technical Values ​​of Historic Buildings 2), ed. v. P. Fuentes et al. A. Wunderwald. Basel: Birkhäuser 2019, pp. 165-202, ISBN 978-3-0356-1824-2 .

literature

  • Huerta Fernández, Santiago: Construction History in Spain. Some notes on its current state, historical origins and future perspectives . In: Construction History: Research Perspectives in Europe. Between Mechanics and Architecture VI, edited by Antonio Becchi, Massimo Corradi, Federico Foce and Orietta Pedemonte, pp. 43-59. Kim Williams Books Florence 2004, ISBN 88-88479-11-2 .

proof

  1. ↑ Huerta Fernández, Santiago; Aroca Hernández-Ros, Ricardo (1989). Masonry Domes: A study on proportion and similarity . In: Proceedings of IASS 30th Anniversary World Congress, Madrid 11-15 September 1989, Madrid: CEDEX, Laboratorio Central de Estructuras y Materiales.
  2. ↑ Huerta Fernández, Santiago; Gil-Crespo, Ignacio Javier: Construction History in Spain. The disciplin's foundation . In: L'Histoire de la construction / Construction History. Un méridien européen / A European Meridian, ed. By Antonio Becchi, Robert Carvais and Joël Sakarovitch, Tome I, pp. 273-298. Paris: Association francophone d'histoire de la construction 2015 (here p. 279).
  3. ^ Kurrer, Karl-Eugen; Huerta Fernández, Santiago: Contribution to the history of plastic calculation methods in steel construction . In: Stahlbau , Vol. 75 (2006), no. 4, pp. 317-330.
  4. ↑ Huerta Fernández, Santiago; Kurrer, Karl-Eugen: For structural analysis of arched stone structures . In: Masonry Calendar 2008, ed. v. Wolfram Jäger , pp. 373-422. Berlin: Ernst & Sohn 2008, ISBN 978-3-433-01871-2 .
  5. ^ Kurrer, Karl-Eugen: The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium . Berlin: Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 196, ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Huerta Fernández, Santiago
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish architect and historian of civil engineering
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid