Engineers and Artificers

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Three Architects, a City and an Era. Ribes, Mora and Goerlich in the València of the First Half of the 20th Century

ARCINIEGA, Luis (coord.)

València: Council of Territory Policies, Public Works and Mobility , 2022. Llibre

This joint work where several specialists on heterogeneous disciplines intervene narrates one of the most important architectural moments of the city in a key moment for the configuration of a renewed urban image reflecting modernity and progress. The concatenation of two ephemeris as important as the centenary and fiftieth anniversary of the deaths of *Demetrio Ribes (1921) and Javier Goerlich (1972), they serve as a pretext to vindicate two figures which, accompanied by Francisco Mora, took the leadership of the transformation of València in the first half of the last century. The book combines very specialised texts with others linked to more general aspects. A wide perspective that...

This joint work where several specialists on heterogeneous disciplines intervene narrates one of the most important architectural moments of the city in a key moment for the configuration of a renewed urban image reflecting modernity and progress. The concatenation of two ephemeris as important as the centenary and fiftieth anniversary of the deaths of *Demetrio Ribes (1921) and Javier Goerlich (1972), they serve as a pretext to vindicate two figures which, accompanied by Francisco Mora, took the leadership of the transformation of València in the first half of the last century. The book combines very specialised texts with others linked to more general aspects. A wide perspective that offers from a vision of the city through the press of that time untildetailes studies on the expansion district, the weight of the expositions in the usual architectural languaje, associationism in the construction sector, the use of applied arts or projects which connected the three protagonists of the work, without neglect monografic research for each one of them.

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1. Organising the city. València in the first half of the 20^th century

Vaència in the first half of the century through the public image the press offered. Óscar Calvé Mascarell
From the Ciutat Vella to the Ensanche. Francisco Taberner Pastor
The exhibition of the architecture of Mora, Goerlich and Ribes. Fernando Vegas López Manzanares, Camila Mileto

2. Three architects, three protagonists

Demetrio Ribes Marco (1875-1921). Between architecture and engineering. Between traduition and modernity. Inmaculada Aguilar Civera
Francisco Mora Bereguer (1875-1961). Daniel Benito Goerlich
Javier Goerlich Lleó (1886-1972), an architect among architects. Daniel Benito Goerlich, David Sánchez Muñoz
The Palacio de Ferias y Muestras of Valencia of the architects Goerlich, Ribes and Mora. Daniel Benito Goerlich, David Sánchez Muñoz

3. Meeting spots

The 'Ramo de la construcción'. Valencia, an enclosed market, 1918-1923. Susana Climent Viguer, Óscar Calvé Mascarell
Applied arts and its constructive uses in the Valencian Modernist period. María Mestre Martí, Antonio Gómez Gil
The Palace of Arts and Industries: 'a different perspective of things' among design arts. Luis Arciniega García

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The Engineer Lucio del Valle in the District of Valencia. The Unpublished Manuscript of his Correspondence, 1842-1846. A Contribution to Engineering History.

AGUILAR CIVERA, Inmaculada

València: Council of Housing Public Works and Territory Planning , 2015. Llibre

The recent publication on the Demetrio Ribes Chair is dedicated to one of the most important engineers of the 19^th century in our country, Lucio del Valle. He is also the author of very relevant works such as the road Madrid-València by Las Cabrillas, the Elisabeth II canal or the lighthouses of delta del Ebro. He worked on the district of València between 1840 and 1851 where he was tasked with very important public works. Due to his job, Lucio wrote in his diary the daily aspects and challenges he encountered at work.

As a result of this manuscript, the author Inmaculada Aguilar helps us immerse in the Golden Age of public work in the 19^th century and brings to us a reflexion on the life and work of the engineer Lucio del Valle during his stay in València. His work focuses on roads (not only the projection but also the pawn squares, the challenges due to the weather, the workshops and stations during construction, etc) and it is specially focused in the Las Cabrillas one but also in the port works of El Grau and Cullera, the line of the optical telegraph in the province or the risks and the Vlaencian public works.

The edition is complimeted with the full digitalisation of the unpublished manuscript of Lucio del Valle, in DVD, which transformas the publication into an important bibliographic and archive source for researches who want to delve in the lifw and work of the engineer.

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