Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla

Assistant Professor of Architecture. He is an architect graduated from Autonomous National University of Mexico and has a degree on Historic Buildings Conservation from the Excellence Program of the Carolina Foundation and the University of Alcala de Henares, Spain. His expertise involves case studies of ancient mason techniques, stereotomy, descriptive geometry and architectural geometry informed by form- resistant structures. His research focuses on the transmission of building technology from Europe to the Americas focusing on the constructive and geometric analysis of sixteenth-century ribbed vaults in Mexico. His work in masonry, geometry and stereotomy has been awarded in Mexico and the United States and has been disseminated in various forums and journals of Europe, Latin America, and North America.