Dossier for Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla

BENJAMIN IBARRA SEVILLA

DOSSIER

FOR PROMOTION TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WITH TENURE THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE SUMMER MMXVIII

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.0 Curriculum Vitae

2.0 Statements

1.2 Awards

2.0 Overview

2.1 Research

2.2 Teaching

2.4 Future Projections

3.0 Research Streams, Selected Projects

3.1 Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry, Sixteenth-Century Rib Vaults 66

in Oaxaca, Mexico

3.12 3D Printing 3.3 Guastavino Vaults

3.4 Oblique Bridge at St Paul MN

104

4.0 Research Dissemination

110

4.1 Book: Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry

112

4.2 Exhibition

122

4.21 Exhibition Press Coverage

138

4.22 Research Website

142

4.3 Journal Articles

148

4.31 From Stone Fretwork to Ribbed Vaults

150

4.32 First ribbed vaults of the Americas

168

4.33 The Hidden Face of the Vault

198

4.4 Proceedings Papers

220

4.41 Unusual Condiitons = Novel Solutions

222

4.42 Study of Helicoidal Oblique Bridge

234

4.43 Las bóvedas tabicadas de Guastavino

250

4.44 La cantería renacientista de la mixteca

262

4.5 Invited Articles

278

4.51 La cantería de las bóvedas del siglo XVI en Oaxaca 4.52 The city of Oaxaca as World Heritage Site 4.53 Construction History Research in Central America 4.54 Oaxaca como patrimonio de la humanidad 4.6 Organization of Scholarly Events

280 292 302 308 330

5.0 Hands-on, Intersections Between Research and Teaching

340

5.1 Seminar: Secret Knowledge

342

5.2 The Cloud

378

6.2 Tile Vaults

354

1.0 CURRICULUM VITAE

BENJAMIN IBARRA SEVILLA Assistant Professor of Architecture & Historic Preservation in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin. His expertise involves case studies of ancient masonry techniques, stereotomy, descriptive geometry, and architectural geometry informed by form-resistant structures. As a scholar with concentration in LatinAmerica his most recent research work studies the transmission of building technology from Europe to the Americas during the sixteenth century focusing on the constructive and geometric analysis of rib vaults in Mexico. This work reveals the symbiosis between European geometry and Indigenous construction techniques while underlying their contributions to the repertory of forms of world architecture. In recognition of his research, Benjamin has received five national an international awards that include: the Phillip Johnson Publication Award by the Society of Architectural Historians (2017), best publication award in the category of theory, history and criticism at the LatinAmerican Biennale of Quito (2016), medal to best publication at the National and International Architecture Biennale of Mexico (2015), medal to best publication at the Architecture Biennale of Mexico City (2015), and The University of Texas-COOP Excellence Creative Research Award (2014). The School of Architecture at UT Austin has also honored his trajectory with the Outstanding Scholarship Award (2015). He has published a book a book named “Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry / El arte de la cantería mixteca” (UNAM in December 2014) and has curated a traveling exhibition holding the same name that has visited 11 different venues in the US and Mexico in the past five years. The exhibition includes widely illustrated panels, digital animations and fifteen 3D-printed models. Accompanying this body of work is a website that actively compiles the information of this research project illustrated by digital animations, drawings and photographs. In addition, works that reflect on particular issues of this project and other projects have been published as articles in peer reviewed journals, as book chapters, and as conference proceedings papers. Benjamin has delivered a number of lectures on his research to both, academic audience and general public, nationally and internationally. Ibarra-Sevilla received a B.Arch from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM) and holds a masters degree on Conservation and Restoration of Built Heritage from the Excellence Program of the Carolina Foundation and the University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Previous to UT Austin, Prof. Ibarra-Sevilla was a faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota's School of Architecture where he also was a Research Fellow of the Center for World Heritage Studies.

CONTENTS CURRICULUM VITAE 1.0 Biographic Information

2.0 Research. Publications, Academic Achievements

3.00 Funded Research

4.00 Exhibitions / Gallery Talks / Scholarly Events

5.00 Teaching

6.00 Service

7.00 Professional Development

8.00 Professional Practice in Architecture

1.01 Education 1.02 Academic Appointments 1.03 Academic and Professional Affiliations 1.04 Professional Experience

2.01 Publications: Authored Books 2.02 Awards, Honors and Recognitions 2.03 Publications: Academic Journals 2.04 Publications: Book Chapters, Articles by Invitation 2.05 Publications: Conference Proceedings 2.06 Conferences: Paper Presentations 2.07 Invited Lectures 2.08 Digital Archives / Websites / Blogs 2.09 Fellowships & Scholarships

3.01 Funded Research: Grants / Contracts / Subventions 3.02 Grants from Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies 3.03 UNESCO Projects - with Center for World Heritage Studies 3.04 Grants Applications (not funded) 3.05 Funded Undergraduate Research Projects (UROP)

4.01 Exhibitions / Creative Work 4.02 Organization of International Scholarly Events 4.03 Hands-on Construction Workshops 4.04 Gallery Talks / Panels and Presentations

5.01 Coursework: University of Texas at Austin 5.02 Coursework: University of Minnesota (Assistant Professor) 5.03 Coursework: University of Minnesota (Visiting Professor) 5.04 Graduate Thesis & Dissertation Committees 5.05 Additional Teaching 5.06 Recognition of Studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Work 5.07 Guest Critic/Juror

6.01 Service - National and International 6.02 Service - University of Texas at Austin 6.03 Service - University of Minnesota

7.01 Career Improvement Seminar / Workshops 7.02 Conferences / Symposia - Attended

8.01 Practice in Architecture

1.0 Biographic Information 1.01 EDUCATION Master’s Degree in Conservation and Restoration of the Built Heritage,

Universidad de Alcala de Henares and Carolina Foundation Excellence Program. Madrid, Spain,

2005 Bachelor’s in Architecture

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City — Bachelor’s in Architecture with Distinction (Professional Degree)

1994

1.02 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor of Architecture & Historic Preservation School of Architecture  The University of Texas at Austin

2013 — Present Assistant Professor of Architecture

College of Design, School of Architecture  University of Minnesota

2008 — 2013 Visiting Assistant Professor

College of Design, School of Architecture  University of Minnesota

2006 — 2008 Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor

College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA)  University of Minnesota

Fall 2002 & Fall 2004 Oaxaca Undergraduate Study Abroad Design Studio Guest Instructor College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA)  University of Minnesota

Spring 2002, 2003, 2004 Summer Exchange Program Guest Instructor

University of Texas at San Antonio and National Autonomous University of Mexico Summer

2002 Exchange Program Guest Instructor

University of Puerto Rico and National Autonomous University of Mexico

Fall 2001

1.03 ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Sociedad Española de la Historia de la Construcción 2013 — Present Construction History Society of America 2013 — Present Vice-chair starting summer 2018 Society Architecture Historians 2014 — Present ICOMOS 2008 — Present Research Creative Collaborative “Locating Heritage” Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota,

2011 — 2013 Docomomo Minnesota 2008 — 2013 National Trust for Historic Preservation 2008 — 2013 Spanish Association for Cultural Heritage

2005

1.04 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Architecture Designer

Benjamin Ibarra Arquitectura

2004-2012 Architecture Designer E.Lastra Arquitectura

1999-2004 Architecture Designer

Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH), Mexico

1994-1999 Architecture Designer PRECOR Architecture

1993-1994 Architecture Intern

Centro de Estudios de la Vivienda, CENVI

1991-1993

2.00 Research - Publications - Awards 2.01 PUBLICATIONS: AUTHORED BOOKS El arte de la cantería mixteca / Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry

by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

2014 Reviewed in “Arquitectura Viva” No 175 06/2016, Spain Reviewed in “Loggia, Arquitectura y Restauracion” No 29 2016, Spain Reviewed in “EGA Expresion Grafica Arquitectonica” No 26 2016, Spain

2.02 AWARDS / HONORS / RECOGNITIONS Phillip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award Society of Architectural Historians

2017 Best Publication Award, XX Pan-American Architecture Biennale of Quito 2016 Category: Theory, History and Criticism

2016 Best Publication Award, National And International Architecture Biennale of Mexico Federación de Arquitectos de Mexico.

2016 Outstanding Scholarship Award

School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin

2016 Best Publication Award, Mexico City Architecture Biennale

Colegio de Arquitectos de la Ciudad de Mexico. Mexico City Architecture Biennale

2015 The University of Texas - COOP. Excellence Creative Research Award The University of Texas at Austin

2014 Learning abroad center faculty and staff recognition. Awarded for contributions in promoting and supporting education abroad Learning Abroad Center University of Minnesota

2010 & 2011 National Award, “Francisco de la Maza”, First Prize for a Research Thesis Work of Excellence Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), Mexico

1999 Merit Mention for Thesis Work

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

1998

Recognition for the Contribution to the Conservation of the Architectural Heritage of Oaxaca Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH), Mexico

1998 University Medal; Gustavo Baz Prada

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

1995

2.03 PUBLICATIONS: ACADEMIC JOURNALS From Stone Fretwork to Ribbed Vaults, Sixteenth-century Masonry Construction Techniques of the Mexican Indigenous People by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Informes de la Construcción Vol. 65, Instituto Eduardo Torroja, Spain, Vol. 65, No EXTRA-2, pp 65-80. Article in English and Spanish

2014

First Ribbed Vaults of the Americas: Indigenous People Skills, Construction and Crafting processes in the Mixtec region of southern Mexico by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Construction History Journal Vol 28 No.1 U.K. pp 1-25 Article in English

2013

The Hidden Face of the Vault: Unveiling the Expression of the Avant-Garde Through the Use of the Sphere in Teposcolula’s Open Chapel by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Nexus, Architecture and Mathematics. Volume 15, Issue 1 , pp 107-125 Article in English

2013

Líneas y entramados estructurales; geometría de trazo para las bóvedas mixtecas renacentistas de Coixtlahuaca, Yanhuitlán y Teposcolula en Oaxaca

by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Bitácora Arquitectura, Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. No 25 pp, 72-77 Article in Spanish

2012

La capilla abierta de Teposcolula: un edificio único en el mundo

by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Archivo Dominicano, Anuario de Investigación Histórica XXXIII, Spain, pp 25-94 Article in Spanish

2012

2.04 PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS & ARTICLES BY INVITATION Sobre las bóvedas de nervaduras en México, relaciones entre geometría, espacio y estructura by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Monumentos, biblioteca de infraestructura del Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico

2018 (Forthcoming)

La cantería de las bóvedas del siglo XVI; Habilidades mixtecas en la talla de piedra y la construcción monumental

by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Chapter for the Exhibition Catalog “Ñuu Dzahui” Mixtecos, Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, Gobierno de Mexico, pp 315-320

2018 The city of Oaxaca as World Heritage Site: Challenges to Overcome for Reaching Integrated Conservation

by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Forty years after the Manifest of Amsterdam: Reflections on the past, present and future of Integrated Conservation, Centre for Advanced Studies in Integrated Conservation - CECI, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Porto, Portugal. p. 48-64 Article in English, Spanish and Portuguese

2018 Construction History Research of Early Colonial Buildings in Central America, New Doors for Interpretation by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Construction History Journal No. 29 p. 7-12 Essay in English

2016 La ciudad de Oaxaca como patrimonio de la humanidad

by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Book in commemoration of the 475th anniversary of Oaxaca City. Casa de la Ciudad de Oaxaca. p. 9-31 Chapter in Spanish

2007 Restauración de la capilla abierta de Teposcolula

by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Loggia; Arquitectura y Restauración, Universidad de Valencia,Spain. No20 pp 98-111 Article in Spanish

2007

2.05 PUBLICATIONS: CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS PEER REVIEWED Las bóvedas tabicadas de Guastavino para el edificio municipal de Nueva York, soluciones de planta irregular y flecha limitada 10º Congreso Nacional y 2º Congreso Internacional Hispanoamericano en Historia de la Construcción. San Sebastian, Spain. Instituto Juan de Herrera, Vol 2, pp 783-795 Article in Spanish

2017 Bóvedas góticas en Ámerica, geometría de trazo y estereotomía de la piedra en tres iglesias del siglo XVI en la Mixteca, México Simposio Internacional Obra Congrua 1416, 600 aniversario de la consulta de la Catedral de Girona, Spain. Instituto Juan de Herrera, pp 265-276 Article in Spanish

2016

Badlands National Park Centennial Studio

by Michael Holleran and Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Century of Design in the Parks symposium, hosted by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, pp 347 - 351 Article in English

2016 Unusual Conditions = Novel Solutions: Guastavino’s Strategies And Underlying Geometry For The Vaults Of Irregular Plan In New York Municipal Building by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Construction History Chicago, pp 329-338 Article in English

2015 Transmission of Building Technology from Europe to the Americas: Underlying Geometry and Stereotomy Studies of Three Types of Ribbed Vaults Constructed in Mexico between 1535 & 1575 by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla International Congress of Construction History, Paris, France Nuts and Bolts of Construction History. p. 393-400 Article in English

2012 La cantería renacentista de la Mixteca; Análisis esteretómico de tres bóvedas nervadas en Oaxaca, México

by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla 7º Congreso Nacional en Historia de la Construccion. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Instituto Juan de Herrera, pp 674-685 Article in Spanish

2011 Estudios de estereotomía digitalizada: Escaneo laser y modelos digitales para la conservación de bóvedas nervadas del siglo XVI en Oaxaca, México by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla 2do. Congreso Iberoamericano y X Jornada. Técnicas de Restauración y Conservación del Patrimonio. La Plata, Argentina. Digital Proceedings in CD, 12 pages Article in Spanish

2011 Curious Acts of Geometry: Underlying Geometry Analysis of Two Sixteenth Century Vaults in Mexico

by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla 11th North American Masonry Conference, “Transforming Traditions” Minneapolis, MN Digital Proceedings in CD available at http://www.masonrysociety.org/NAMC-11th_Archive/index.html, 12 Pages Article in English

2009 Can BIM Inspire a New Direction in Architectural Education?

by Renee Cheng & Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla In Fresh Air: Proceedings of the ACSA Ninety Fifth Annual Meeting Held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 455-460 Article in English 2007

La arquitectura indígena del siglo XVI en el señorio de Teposcolula Oaxaca México, la restauración del convento de San Juan Teposcolula

by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla V Congreso Internacional, Restaurar la memoria, Arquitectura y Patrimonio, Valladolid, Volume 2 Spain, pp 711-731 Article in Spanish

2006

Mission to Baku, Azerbaijan, to Conduct a Pilot Study with Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction on the Inventory Model of Historic Buildings in the World Heritage Site of “The Walled City (Icheri Sherer), the Ensemble of the Shirvanshah’s Palace and the Maiden Tower (Giz Galasy)

by Arthur Chen & Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla V Congreso Internacional, Restaurar la memoria, Arquitectura y Patrimonio, Valladolid, Volume 2 Spain, pp 925-939 Article in English

2006

2.06 CONFERENCES: PAPER PRESENTATION - PEER REVIEWED Las bóvedas tabicadas de Guastavino para el edificio municipal de Nueva York, soluciones de planta irregular y flecha limitada by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla 10º Congreso Nacional y 2º Congreso Internacional Hispanoamericano en Historia de la Construcción. San Sebastian, Spain.

2017 Preserving Stonecutting Craft; Restoration of a Sixteenth-Century Ribbed Vault at the Open Chapel of Teposcolula, Oaxaca, Mexico. by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Architecture Preservation Technology International Conference, San Antonio Texas

2016 Unusual Conditions = Novel Solutions, New York Municipal Building Vaults Constructed by Guastavino Company by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla South East Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting

2016 Estrategias de conservación y visualización con tecnologías digitales en bóvedas de piedra del siglo dieciséis by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Congreso Internacional Patrimonio Cultural y Nuevas Tecnologías, INAH, Mexico City

2014 Conservation Strategies Through Digital Operations, Documentation, Assessment, and Visualization of Sixteenth-century Mixtec Ribbed Vaults in Southern Mexico by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Architecture Preservation Technology International Conference, Quebec, Canada

2014 Stereotomy of the Helicoidal Oblique Bridge of Seventh Street in Saint Paul, Minnesota by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Construction HistorySociety of America 3rd Biennial Meeting, Cambridge MS

2012 Casa de la Cacica: An Indigenous Renaissance Palace in Early Colonial Mexico by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Renaissance Society of America Conference, Washington DC

2012

Expression of Avant-Garde Through the Use of the Sphere in Teposcolula’s 16th century Open Chapel by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Nexus, Architecture and Mathematics Conference, Milan, Italy

2012 The Role of Materials and Technology in the Identification of Type in the 16th c. Indigenous Architecture of Oaxaca, Mexico by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Vernacular Architecture Forum, Butte, Montana

2009 Two heritage sites + One property = One Historic Urban Landscape. Proposal for a Monitoring System for Oaxaca – Monte Alban by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla FORUM UNESCO, Hanoi, Vietnam

2009

2.07 INVITED LECTURES LIDAR Technology: A case study in Oaxaca, Mexico

Lecture for symposium Symposium on Technologies for Historic Preservation of Earthen Structures University of New Mexico

2017 El Arte de la cantería mixteca

Lecture at large for exhibition opening at Museo de Yanhuitlan Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico

2017 Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry

Lecture for series Digital Scholars in Practice Lecture Series Library System at the University of Texas at Austin

2016 El Arte de la cantería mixteca

Keynote Lecture 1er Encuentro Internacional sobre Patrimonio Cultural de Oaxaca Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico

2016 The Mexican Gothic; 3d Scanning and Visualization three 16th-Century Churches in Oaxaca Keynote Lecture Modeling Medieval Vaults International Symposium University of Liverpool in London

2016 Bóvedas y geometría

Keynote Lecture International Workshop “Volver a la tierra” Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca

2016

El arte de la cantería mixteca

Lecture for School of Architecture Universidad de Murcia, Spain

2015 Geometry, Gravity & Structure

Lecture within workshop opened to all the School of Architecture community University of Virginia

2015 Research on Masonry Vaults

Lecture within the lecture series of the School of Architecture Lecture Series South Dakota State University

2014 El arte de la cantería mixteca

Lecture at large for exhibition opening Escuela Superior de Arquitectura, Guadalajara, Mexico

2014 Bóvedas nervadas de la mixteca Oaxaqueña

Lecture for seminar to selected group of scholars Coordinación Nacional de Monumentos Históricos, Seminario Permanente de Investigación, El constructor: mano de obra, técnicas y materiales de construcción, Mexico City

2013 El arte de la cantería mixteca

Lecture at large within the lecture series of the School of Architecture Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Benito Juarez de Oaxaca, Mexico

2013 El arte de la cantería mixteca

Lecture at large for exhibition opening Centro Cultural San Pablo, Oaxaca, Mexico

2013 Construction Intricacies of Sixteenth-Century Ribbed Vaults in Mexico Lecture at large for AIA convention Construction History Panel at Minnesota AIA convention. Minneapolis, MN

2012 La geometría fabrorum en la cantería mixteca del siglo XVI; Estudios esteretómicos de las bóvedas nervadas de Yanhuitlán, Coixtlahuaca y Teposcolula Lecture at late for exhibition opening Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City

2012 Fabrorum Geometries for Stonecutting Operations; Analysis of Sixteenth-Century Vaults in the Mixteca, Mexico Lecture within the lecture series of the School of Architecture Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA

2012 Restauración de bóvedas nervadas

Lecture for the building conservation program School of Architecture, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay

2011

Esteretomía en el siglo XVI en Oaxaca, Mexico

Lecture within the lecture series of the School of Architecture Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain

2011 Curious Acts of Geometry: Underlying Geometry Analysis of Three Sixteenth Century Vaults in Mexico Lecture broadcasted to the University’s community Global Spotlight 2T Lecture Series. University of Minnesota

2011 Esteretotomía: casos de estudio

Lecture for the building conservation program Escuela Nacional de Restauracion, Conservacion y Museografia, Mexico City

2010 Stereotomy of the Sixteenth Century in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico; The question of the What and the How Lecture for annual meeting as “work in progress” session Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians, Minneapolis, MN

2008 The City of Oaxaca, Sacred Connections of Past and Present

Lecture for symposium Sacred Sites | Sacred Sights: Past/Present/Future Symposium, University of Minnesota

2008 Geometría, estereotomía y represenatción gráfica en la conservación del patrimonio de Oaxaca, México Lecture for Seminar open to the public Seminar in Latin American Heritage, Museum of America, Madrid, Spain

2005 Geometría, estereotomía y represenatción gráfica en la conservación del patrimonio de Oaxaca, México Lecture for Seminar open to the public Philately Museum, Oaxaca, Mexico

2003

2.08 DIGITAL ARCHIVES / WEBSITES / BLOGS Website: 6th Biennial Meeting of the Construction History Society of America

Website for the 5th biennial meeting of the CHSA https://www.chsa-6thbiennial.org

2018 Website: El Gotico en Mexico

Website compiling 16th century Mexican buildings using gothic building methods of construction http:// www.elgoticoenmexico.org

2017 Website: 5th Biennial Meeting of the Construction History Society of America

Website for the 5th biennial meeting of the CHSA http://www.chsa-5thbiennial.org,

2016 Website: Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry

Website accompanying the book and the exhibition http://www.mixtec-stonecutting.com

2014

Restoration of Cultural Monuments in Oaxaca, mexico

Curation and digitization agreement of 922 slides from restoration projects from my professional practice. All images to be included in Artstor image collection. With support of Elizabeth Schaub & VRC, School of Architecture UT Austin. Available at http://www.artstor.org/ collection/restoration-cultural-monuments-oaxaca-mexico-university-texas-austin

2014-2015 El arte de la cantería mixteca, destreza tecnológica de los indígenas del siglo XVI

Blog ESARQ http://blog.esarq.edu.mx/2014/06/25/el-arte-de-la-canteria-mixteca-destreza-tecnologica-de-losindigenas-del-siglo-xvi/

2014 Website: El Chubasco Photography

Website of my own photography work http://elchubasco.smugmug.com

2014

2.09 FELLOWSHIPS & SCHOLARSHIPS Faculty Fellow

Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies (LLILAS)  University of Texas

2013- present Big xii Faculty Fellowship

The University of Texas at Austin & University of Iowa

2015 Research Fellow

Center for World Heritage Studies  University of Minnesota

2008-2013 Carolina Foundation Excellence Program in Cultural Heritage Scholarship Spanish Agency for International Cooperation , Government of Spain

2005 Cass Gilbert Fellowship

College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture  University of Minnesota

2002 & 2004

3.00 Funded Research 3.01 FUNDED RESEARCH: GRANTS / CONTRACTS / SUBVENTIONS Research Incubator for Grants Writing Workshop with International Researchers Funded by the International Office, University of Texas at Austin $25,000

2017

Guadalupe Mountains National Park, HABS Survey for the Heritage Documentation Program Funded by the National Park Service Contract Amount: $25,000

2017-2018 Carlsbad National Park, HABS Survey for the Heritage Documentation Program Funded by the National Park Service Contract Amount: $25,000

2016-2017 Badlands National Park, Cultural Landscape With Associate Professor Michael Holleran Funded by the National Park Service Contract Amount: $165,000

2015 Big XII Faculty Fellowship

Funded by the University of Texas at Austin Award Amount: $2,000

2015 Mexican Pre-Columbian Architecture Under the Light of Stereotomy Summer Research Assignment  Funded by the School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin Award amount: $9,000

2015 Mixtec Stonecutting Artsitry

Book Subvention  Funded by the Office of the President, The University of Texas at Austin Award amount: $5,000

2013 Indigenous Stonecutting Masonry Work

Exhibition Production  Funded by Alfredo Harp Elu Foundation Oaxaca, Mexico Award amount: $3,500

2013 From fretwork to Rib Vaults

Research Grant  Funded by the Grant-in-Aid program, Office of the Vice-President for Research, University of Minnesota Award amount: $15,000

2013 3D Printing of three Sixteenth-Century Rib Vaults

Research Production Funded by the Imagine Fund Grant for Arts, Design and Humanities, University of Minnesota Award amount: $5,000

2012 Three Sixteenth-Century Rib Vaults, Catalogue Edition

Research Production Funded by the Metropolitan Design Center, University of Minnesota Award amount: $4,000

2012

Stereotomy and Geometry of Sixteenth-Century Buildings in Mexico

Course Release / Research Grant Funded by the Imagine Fund Grant for Arts, Design and Humanities, University of Minnesota Award amount: $13,000

2011 Stereotomy and Geometry of Sixteenth-Century Buildings in Mexico

Research Assistant Matching Funds Funded by School of Architecture, College of Design, University of Minnesota Award amount: $2,200

2011 Studies of the Tile Vaults Built by Guastavino Company

Fabrication Grant Funded by the Minnesota Masonry Endowment Grant, University of Minnesota Award amount: $8,000

2011 Digital 3D Modeling of Sixteenth-Century Rib Vaults

Research Funded by the Imagine Fund Grant for Arts, Design and Humanities, University of Minnesota Award amount: $5,000

2010 â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Cloudâ&#x20AC;? Temporary Child Shelter and Installation at Silverwood Park Fabrication Grant Funded by the Horty Foundation Award amount: $6,000

2010 Stereotomic Transmission, Documentation of Two Sixteenth-Century Rib Vaults in Oaxaca

Research Grant Funded by the Grant-in-Aid program, Office of the Vice-President for Research, University of Minnesota Award amount: $26,000

2010 The Mixteca Treasures

Travel Research Grant Funded by the Imagine Fund Grant for Arts, Design and Humanities, University of Minnesota Award amount: $3,000

2009 Inventory of Historic Properties in the Sierra Juarez of Oaxaca Research Contract National Council For Culture and Arts, Mexico Award amount: $5,000

2002

3.02 GRANTS FROM LOZANO LONG INSTITUTE FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Gothic Architecture in Mexico

Travel Research Grant  Funded by LLILAS Mellon Faculty Research Grant, The University of Texas at Austin Award amount: $3,500

2017 Mexican Pre-Columbian Architecture Under the Light of Stereotomy

Travel Research Grant  Funded by LLILAS Mellon Faculty Research Grant, The University of Texas at Austin Award amount: $3,500

2014 Transference of Building Technology from Spain to Mexico in the 16th Century Special Projects Grant  Funded by the Mexican Center LLILAS, The University of Texas at Austin Award amount: $3,500

2014

3.03 UNESCO PROJECTS - WITH CENTER FOR WORLD HERITAGE STUDIES Inventory oF Historic Buildings And Building Capacity in World Heritage Site, Stone ToWn, Zanzibar, Tanzania PI Arthur Chen, Co-PI Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla, Center for World Heritage Studies at University of Minnesota Travel for faculty and students funded by UNESCO

2009 Inventory oF Historic Buildings AND Building Capacity in “Icheri Sherer", World Heritage Site, Baku Azerbaijan

PI Arthur Chen, Co-PI Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla, Center for World Heritage Studies at University of Minnesota Travel faculty and students funded by UNESCO

2008 Advisory for the Philippines Delegation on the World Heritage Nomination Dossier of the Batanes Islands PI Arthur Chen, Co-PI Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla, Center for World Heritage Studies at University of Minnesota Travel funded by UNESCO

2007

3.04 GRANTS APPLICATIONS (NOT FUNDED) Comprehensive Building Analysis and Conservation Management plan for Felix Candela San Antonio de las Huertas, Mexico City Application to Getty Foundation Keep it Modern Program $200,000

2017

How an Underground Subway Station Created the Most Complex Masonry Vaults in North America Application to Snell Grant UTSoA University of Texas at Austin $20,000

2017 Parametric Research of the Studenica Church, a UNESCO Heritage Site, as a Model for Advanced Studies of Medieval Architecture With Jelena Bogdanović, Ph.D., Iowa State University NEH Digital Humanities Advancement $75,000

2017 Underlying Geometry of Guastavino’s Brooklyn Municipal Building Vaults Application to Fitch Foundation $15,000

2016 Life in the Inca City: Experiencing the Last Independent Urban Tradition With R. Alan Covey, Ph.D. Department of Anthropology UT Austin Application to NEH Collaborative Research

2014 Mexican Pre-Columbian Architecture Under de Light of Stereotomy, Building Methods and Constructive Solutions Application to UT Faculty Grant  Funded by the School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin $6,600

2013 How indigenous people of the Americas built gothic vaults Application to Graham Foundation as Educational Video $9,300

2013

3.05 FUNDED UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECTS Lunettes and Groin Vaults in the Municipal Building NYC Recipient: Sebastian Marquez, University of Minnesota Award amount: $1,300

2012 Explorations on Unusual Gothic Vaulting Systems Recipient: Amanda Marcott, University of Minnesota Award amount: $1,300

2012 The Seventh Street Improvement Arches of St. Paul. A Study of its Stereotomy Recipient: Brenna Hoisington, University of Minnesota Award amount: $1,550

2011-2012 Connecting Contemporary and Ancient Design Through the Studies of Perpetual Motion Machine Recipient: Megan Freeman, University of Minnesota Award amount: $1,700

2011

Stereotomy Studies of the XVI Century Masonry Vault at Teposcolula, Oaxaca, Mexico Recipient: Allison Johnson, University of Minnesota Award amount: $1,700

2009 Stereotomy Studies of the XVI Century Masonry Vaults in Yanhuitlan, Oaxaca, Mexico Recipient: Jonathan Dessi-Olive, University of Minnesota Award amount: $1,700

2009

4.00 Exhibitions / Gallery Talks / Scholarly Events 4.01 EXHIBITIONS / CREATIVE WORK Ñuu Dzahui, Mixtecos

Collective exhibition on the Mixteca Culture of Mexico Palacio Nacional de México, Secretaría de Hacienda, Gobierno de México

December 2017 - July 2018 Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry / El arte de la cantería mixteca

Traveling Exhibition composed of thirty-six panels, fifteen 3D-printed models and a 10 minutes video of digital animations. • Instituto Cultural de Mexico en San Antonio, Texas. Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores

December 2017 - March 2018

• Museo de Yanhuitlan, Oaxaca. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia October 2017 - May 2018 • School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin for the 5th Biennial Meeting of the Construction History Society of America

May - August 2016 • School of Architecture, Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez

May - November 2015 • School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin

January - February 2015 • Escuela Superior de Arquitectura, Guadalajara, Mexico

August - October 2014 • Centro Cultural Clavijero, Morelia, Mexico

April - July 2014 • Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City

September - December 2013

• Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota

August - October 2013 • Centro Cultural San Pablo, Oaxaca, Mexico

April - July 2013 Restoration of Cultural Monuments in Oaxaca, Mexico

Exhibition of my images from restoration projects I was involved with. VRC, School of Architecture

February - May 2015 Documentary, Teposcolula: Una capilla abierta a las nubes

The 45 minutes documentary broadcasted on public television (Canal 22) in Mexico on January 2014 shows animations from my research project while I speak as an expert about the building. Available at https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7bSZ_psI0U

2014-2015 Fabrication of Dror Wall System for Target Co.

Fabrication and assembly of Dror’s wall system commissioned by Target Co. In collaboration with QuaDror and School of Architecture University of Minnesota

2012 Skew Arches, Cow Horns and Oblique Bridges; The Problem of the Trust to the VoID in Ancient Masonry Construction Exhibition within the National Masonry Construction Conference, Minneapolis, MN

2011 “The Cloud” Installation/ Temporary Child Shelter at Silverwood Park

Installation, structure of fabric and PVC that served as shelter during the summer at Silverwood Park in Minneapolis, MN

2010 Diagrams for the Book “Constructing ideas”

Illustrations, Book Author: Lance Lavine, Minneapolis, MN

2004 Drawings for the Book “La Restauración de Santo Domingo de Guzman en Oaxaca” Illustrations, Book Author: Veronica Loera y Chavez, et al, Oaxaca, Mexico

2001 Drawings of for the restoration of the open chapel of Teposcolula displayed at the Fine Arts National Gallery in Mexico City Exhibition, Mexico City

2000

4.02 ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY EVENTS 5th Biennial Meeting of the Construction History Society of America National and international meeting on History of Construction Three keynote lectures, exhibition, and fifty paper presentations

May 2016

World Heritage Cities in Latin America, Management and Conservation Challenges

with Fernando Lara (School of Architecture) Lecture Series. Four speakers from Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia (over two semesters), funded by the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

Fall 2014 - Spring 2015 International Colloquium on Building Technology Transfer during the Sixteenth Century in Mexico Five speakers from US and Mexico, at School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin

January 2015 Colloquium on Pre-Columbian Architecture in Mexico

Five speakers from Mexico, at LLILAS- Benson, The University of Texas at Austin

April 2014 International Colloquium on Ibero-American Contributions to Roofing Systems in the History of Construction

Sixteen speakers from Spain, US and Mexico, at School of Architecture UNAM Coordination with Prof. Juan Ignacio del Cueto.

December 2013 International Symposium on Building Technology Transfer during the Sixteenth Century in Mexico Seven speakers from Spain, US and Mexico, at Instituto Cultural San Pablo Oaxaca

June 2013 Seminar in Modern Heritage in Mexico City

Center for World Heritage Studies, College of Design, University of Minnesota

Fall 2007 Seminar on Latin American Heritage Museum of America, Madrid, Spain

Fall 2005

4.03 HANDS-ON CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOPS Workshops, hands-on construction of Thin Tile vaults using Ancient building Techniques • The University of Texas at Austin

2013, 2015, 2018

• Prototypes for Venice Biennale Exhibition (for Ochsendorf, DeJong & Block)

2016

• University of Virginia, Building the Replica of Rotunda’s Dome (with Benjamin Hays)

2016

• South Dakota State University

2014

• Escuela Superior de Arquitectura, Guadalajara, Mexico

2014

• Escuela Nacional de Restauracion, Conservación y Museografía, Mexico City

2013

• Architecture Preservation Technology Conference (with Kent Diebolt), New York City

2013

• University of Utah (with John Ochsendorf)

2012

• Free-Lab at Dalhousie University (with Richard Kroker), Nova Scotia, Canada

2010

4.04 GALLERY TALKS / PRESENTATIONS / PANELS Round Table: Artifacts and Our Understanding of the Past

Panel Discussion The 2018 Lozano Long Conference: Create, Consume, Collect  The Lives of Colonial Latin American Artifacts Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

Spring 2018 Mexico and the Elections

Panel Discussion Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

Fall 2016 El arte de la cantería Mixteca

Book Presentation Palacio de Mineria, within the frame of the International Book Fair, Mexico City. Panel with Marcos Mazari (Dean School of Architecture UNAM), Juan Ignacio del Cueto and Enrique Lastra (Professors at School of Architecture UNAM)

2015 Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry

Book Presentation Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

Spring 2015 El arte de la cantería mixteca

Gallery Talk Centro Cultural Clavijero, Morelia, Mexico

2014 Baroque in Mexico

Panel discussion Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

Fall 2014 Historia de las cubiertas en Hispanoamérica

Panel discussion Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City

2013 Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry

Gallery Talk Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota

2013

Arquitectura del siglo XVI en la mixteca de Oaxaca

Radio talk Radio program “La arquitectura en el espacio y en el tiempo” conducted by Felipe Leal weekly. National broadcast through Radio UNAM, Mexico

2013 El arte de la cantería mixteca

Gallery Talk Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City

2013 Oaxaca a World Heritage City of the Present Time

Panel discussion National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference, Minneapolis, MN

2007

5.00 Teaching

5.01 COURSEWORK: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 2013-PRESENT AS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE

Undergraduate Required Course, Design 2 Spring 2016 Graduate Required Course, Architecture Advanced Design Studio Fall 2015 Spring 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 Graduate Required Course, Construction 1 Fall 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Graduate Required Course MSHP, Graphic Documentation Fall 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 Graduate and Undergraduate Elective Course, Secret Knowledge, Rediscovering the Methods and Techniques of the Old Master Builders Spring 2014, 2016, 2018

5.02 COURSEWORK: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 2008-2013 AS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE Graduate required course, Structural Systems Fall 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Graduate and undergraduate elective course, Form Performance Structures Fall 2011, 2012

Graduate Required Course, Catalyst Workshop, Skew Arches, Cow Horns and Oblique Bridges and “Escaleras Adulcidas” Renaissance Stairs of Continuous Intrados Surface Spring 2009, 2011 Graduate Required Course, Architecture design studio Topics in Building Technology Spring 2009, 2010 Study Abroad, Zanzibar Summer 2009 , with Arthur Chen Undergraduate Required Introductory Course, Design Fundamentals 2 Spring 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Graduate Required Course, 3+ Introduction to Design for Students with no background in Architecture, with Lance Lavine and Renee Cheng

Spring 2010, 2011

5.03 COURSEWORK: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 2002-2007 AS VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE Undergraduate required course, architecture design studio. Fall 2004, 2006, 2007 Spring 2006 Undergraduate required course, Building Methods and Systems Spring 2007, Fall 2007 Graduate and undergraduate elective course, Descriptive Geometry Fall 2004, Spring 2006, 2007 Graduate elective course, Building Information Modeling and Descriptive Geometry, with Renee Cheng Fall 2006 Graduate required course, 3+ Introduction to Design for Students with no background in Architecture, with Lance Lavine and Renee Cheng Spring 2006, 2007 Graduate and undergraduate Study Abroad Program, Inventory of Historic Properties in Icheri Sherer, Baku, Azerbaijan Summer 2006, with Arthur Chen and Robert Mack Undergraduate required course, Architecture Design Studio, Study Abroad at Oaxaca, Mexico with Lance Lavine Spring 2002, 2003, 2004

5.04 GRADUATE THESIS & DISSERTATION COMMITTEES Katherine Duffield Hill

Master of Science in Historic Preservation Thesis at UT Austin What does it mean to preserve historic technology? Exploring Rehabilitation, Interpretation and Adaptation at Historic Hydropower Sites School of Architecture Committee: Michael Holleran and Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla

Status: completed May 2018 Kathryn Clarke

Master of Science in Historic Preservation Thesis at UT Austin Documentation of the Doors of Zanzibar School of Architecture Committee: Michael Holleran, Richard Cleary, Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla

Status: completed May 2017, Camilo Gonzalez

Master of Science in Historic Preservation Thesis at UT Austin Taking a Closer Look at Pressed Concrete Tiles in Central Texas School of Architecture Committee: Michael Holleran, Frances Gale, Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla

Status: completed May 2017 Rebekka Grady

Master of Science in Historic Preservation Thesis at School of Architecture UT Austin A rehabilitation study of the breweryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s building 23: harmony of past, present, and future Best MSHP Thesis 2016 Committee: Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla, Michael Holleran

Status: completed May 2016, Vishal Joshi

Master of Science in Historic Preservation Thesis at School of Architecture UT Austin Rescue, Rehabilitation and the Aftermath of the April 2015 Gurkha earthquake on Nepalese Heritage ICOMOS Murtagh-Graham Thesis Award 2017 Committee: Michael Holleran, Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla, Sarah Lopez

Status: completed May 2016 Paul Cato

Master of Science in Historic Preservation Thesis at School of Architecture UT Austin Crowdfunding Historic Preservation:Â The Future of Fundraising for Historic Preservation Projects Committee: Michael Holleran, Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla

Status: completed May 2015 Hannah Curry-McDougald

Master of Science in Historic Preservation Thesis at School of Architecture UT Austin Design Guidelines for the Houston Heights Historic Districts Committee: Michael Holleran, Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla

Status: to be completed May 2016

Xiaoyuan Yu

Master of Science in Historic Preservation Thesis at School of Architecture UT Austin Patching Ruptures_The Relocation Design of Historic Buildings in Abandoned Villages Committee: Michael Holleran, Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla

Status: completed May 2015 Marcelo Sanchez

Master of Science in Sustainable Design Thesis at School of Architecture University of Minnesota Analysis of the Urban Water Cycle in Social Housing Projects in Monterrey, Mexico Committee: Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla, Jim Lutz, Blaine Brownell

Status: graduated December 2010

5.05 ADDITIONAL TEACHING Stereotomy, the art of Construction in Stone

Workshop on Sail Vaults for the Universidad Autónoma de Morelos, Cuernavaca City

2017 Digital technology and cultural heritage

Workshop for the Certificate in Cultural Heritage Management, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City

2014 Estereotmía Digital

Workshop for the Master on Building Conservation, School of Architecture, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay

2011

5.06 RECOGNITION OF STUDENTS’ WORK The Museum of the Contact in Colonial Oaxaca Ana Lozano, Josh Lamden, Jessica Kulow Student Design Award, AIA Forth Worth TX

Spring 2016 Badlands National Park Project

Hannah Simonson, Kelsey Ridley, Kathleen Conti Design Excellence Award for Advanced Studio School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin

Fall 2015 The Museum of the Contact in Colonial Oaxaca

Ana Lozano, Josh Lamden, Jessica Kulow Design Excellence Award for Advanced Studio School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin

Spring 2015 The Seventh Street Improvement Arches of St. Paul. A Study of its Stereotomy

UROP project By Brenna Hoisington Recipient of the Carl F. and Ruth Carter Warmington Scholarship for academic achievement, as well as the College of Design Fibiger Prize for undergraduate research

2012

Stereotomy Studies of the XVI Century Masonry Vaults in Yanhuitlan, Oaxaca, Mexico UROP project by Jonathan Dessi-Olive ARCC King Student Research Medal

2010

5.07 GUEST CRITIC/JUROR University of Arkansas Fall 2017 University of New Mexico Spring 2017 University of New Mexico. Spring 2016

6.00 Service 6.01 SERVICE - NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Construcción

3er Congreso Internacional Hispanoamericano en Historia de la Construcción. Mexico City . Scientific Committee.

2018 Book publication assessment requested for Routledge.

Tracing the Past: A Digital Analysis of English Gothic Vaults By Alexandrina Buchanan and Nicholas Webb (University of Liverpool)

2017 Construction History Society of America

6th Biennial Meeting Scientific Committee, Organizing Committee and webpage manager.

2017 Sociedad Española de Historia de la Construcción

10º Congreso Nacional y 2º Congreso Internacional Hispanoamericano en Historia de la Construcción. San Sebastian, Spain. Scientific Committee

2017 Construction History Society of America

Chair of the 5th Biennial Meeting, Scientific Committee and webpage manager

2016 Construction History Journal (Construction History Society in the UK) Editorial Board,

2016 - to present

Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture Research Article reviewer (2 Articles)

2016 Construction History Society of America Management Committee Member.

2012 - present Construction History Society of America

5th International Congress on Construction History (Chicago Summer 2015) Scientific Committee

2014-2015 Sociedad Española de Historia de la Construcción

9º Congreso Nacional y 1er Congreso Hispanoamericano de Historia de la Construcción (Segovia Spain Fall 2015) Scientific Committee

2014 Journal Essempi di Architectura (Italy) Scientific Committee

2014 Boletín Monumentos Históricos INAH (Mexico) Scientific Committee

2014 Stereotomy and Architectural Form: Historical Studies in the Development of Stonecutting, from Hellenistic Time to the Present By Mark E Schneider. Book Assesment requested for Routledge

2014 Indeterminacy: Design-Build as Reflection-in-Action,

Topic Chair for paper session (with John Comazzi) Selected among 21% for sessions at the 2009 ACSA National Conference, Portland, Oregon

2009

6.02 SERVICE - UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN School of Architecture

Compensation Committee

2016 - to present School of Architecture

Search committee for an assistant professor on Race and Gender

Fall 2016-Spring 2017 School of Architecture Executive Committee

2016 - to present LLILAS-Benson

Farmer International Fellowship Applications

Spring 2016

University of Texas

Graduate School Awards Committee

Spring 2016 University of Texas

Coop. Excellence Creative Research Award Committee

Spring 2016 LLILAS-Benson

Lecture Series coordinator with Fernando Lara

Fall 2014 - Spring 2015 LLILAS-Benson

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Becas de Investigacion" selection committee

Fall 2014, 2015 School of Architecture

Coordinator for the Annual Design Excellence Awards (with Gabriel Diaz Montemayor)

Fall 2014, 2015, 2016 School of Architecture

Architecture Undergraduate Portfolio Review

Fall 2014 School of Architecture Admissions Committee

Fall 2013 - to present School of Architecture Scholarship Committee

Fall 2013 - to present

6.03 SERVICE - UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA University

President's Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program

Spring 2011- Spring 2012 University

Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence, Welcoming Freshman Lecture

Fall 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 University

Minority Freshman Recruiting

Spring 2012 - Spring 2013 College of Design

Semester Leave Committee

Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 University, Advisory Committee Member Global Programs and Strategy Alliance

Fall 2011- Spring 2012

College of Design

Curriculum Committee

Fall 2010 - Spring 2012 School of Architecture

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Fall 2010 - Spring 2013 School of Architecture

Lecture Series & Catalyst Coordinator

Fall 2010 - Spring 2012 College of Design

Lectures Committee

Fall 2009 - Spring 2012 School of Architecture Graduate Admissions

Fall 2008 - Spring 2013 School of Architecture

Technology and Sustainable Practices Curriculum Committee

Fall 2008 - Spring 2013

7.00 Professional Development

7.01 CAREER IMPROVEMENT SEMINAR / WORKSHOPS - ATTENDED Seminar: Increasing Competitiveness in Foundation Grant Support,

Office of the Vice President for Research, the University of Texas at Austin

Spring 2018 Seminar: How to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Write to the Reviewâ&#x20AC;?- Arts and Humanities,

Office of the Vice President for Research, the University of Texas at Austin

Fall 2017 Seminar: DoD Young Investigator Programs "Ask us Anything" Panel, Office of the Vice President for Research, the University of Texas at Austin

Fall 2017 Seminar: Funding My Research: VPR Resources Overview,

Office of the Vice President for Research, the University of Texas at Austin

Fall 2017 Canvas Training Workshop,

Center for Teaching and Learning, the University of Texas at Austin

Fall 2013

Fine Tune Your Accent Workshop,

Center for Teaching and Learning. University of Minnesota.

Fall 2010 Teaching Enrichment Workshop,

Center for Teaching and Learning. University of Minnesota.

Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 Heritage Management,

Carolina Foundation excellence program in heritage conservation, Visit to 21 heritage related institutions within Spain.

Fall 2005, 84 hours. Heritage Restoration,

Carolina Foundation Excellence Program in heritage conservation, Site visit to 16 restoration projects within Spain

Fall 2005, 64 hours. Form and Construction in Masonry, From Middle Age to the Nineteenth Century, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain

Fall 2005, 40 hours. Course on Sustainable Architecture,

University of Vasque Country at San Sebastian, Spain

Summer 2005. 32 hours Earth Architecture; techniques and constructive systems, University of Valladolid, Spain

Spring 2005, 16 hours Reflections on Heritage Buildings,

International University of the Sea, Murcia, Spain

Spring 2005. 40 hours Studying Heritage, trip to Rome,

Spanish Academy for Arts and Research, Rome, Italy

Spring 2005 70 hours. Tourist Management of Heritage,

Management Institute of Madrid, Spain

Spring 2005, 21 hours Getting Economic Resources for Cultural Projects,

Spanish Association for Cultural Heritage, Autonomic University of Madrid, Spain

Spring 2005, 20 hours Oaxaca, Heritage City of the Present Time Seminar, Oaxaca, Mexico,

Spring- Summer, 2003

7.02 CONFERENCES / SYMPOSIA - ATTENDED Center for Heritage Conservation Symposium,

Preserving African American History in Texas, Texas A&M.

Spring 2018 Center for Heritage Conservation Symposium,

Heritage, Conservation & Archaeology, Texas A&M.

Spring 2017 Center for Heritage Conservation Symposium, Campus Heritage, Texas A&M.

Spring 2016 Center for Heritage Conservation Symposium, The Alamo: Structure of History, Texas A&M.

Spring 2015 Center for Heritage Conservation Symposium, Houston: Building Stories, Texas A&M.

Spring 2014 Seminar Workshop on Conservation of the Built Heritage,

Earthen and Masonry Architecture in the Hispanic America, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico.

November 2008 ACADIA Biological Processes and Computation, Conference University of Minnesota

October 2008 Sacred Sites | Sacred Sights: Past/Present/Future, Symposium, CDes University of Minnesota

April 2008 ACSA National Conference, Philadelphia

Fall 2007 CIB Symposium on Integrated Design Solutions (IDS) Workshop II, Georgia Tech

September 2006

8.00 Professional Practice in Architecture 8.01 PRACTICE IN ARCHITECTURE Own Practice

Design. Quinteroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residence in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Concluded, 2012 Design. Addition to Morleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residence, Minneapolis, MN. With Sara Ibarra

Concluded, 2010

Rehabilitation Project for Lavapies District at Madrid, Spain.

Design only, 2005

Design. House Project in Huajuapan, Oaxaca.

Design and construction, 2002

Design leader with Enrique Lastra in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Renovation. Plaza de la Cruz de Piedra at Oaxaca, Mexico.

Design, 2002; Built ,2005

Restoration. Casa de la Ciudad, 18th century Building at Historic Center Oaxaca City, adaptation into a Library and Museum.

Design and Construction, 2003

Restoration. 16th century Monastery at San Miguel Tequixtepec, Mexico.

Design and Construction, 2002-2003

Restoration. 16th century Palace “Casa de la Cacica”, Teposcolula, Mexico.

Design and Construction, 2002-2005

Restoration. 17th century House “Casa Odriozola”. Adaptation into a Hotel.

Design only, 2002

Design. Masonry Water tank at Oaxaca, Mexico.

Design only, 2001

Design. Turok´s Residence San Agustín Etla, Oaxaca.

Built, 2001

Design. Seubert´s Residence at San Felipe, Oaxaca.

Design only, 2000

Design. Observation Tower for Mezcal “Oro de Oaxaca.”

Design only, 2000

Design. Mexican Cultural Center at Clifden Ireland.

Design Only, 2000

Restoration. Seventeenth Century Monastery of Santo Domingo Tecpatan Chiapas, Mexico.

Design only, 2000

Adaptive reuse. National Museum of Popular Art at Mexico City. First fireman station converted into a museum. Schematic

Design only, 2000

Design Competition: “Casa de las Ajaracas”.

Design only, 2000

Institute Nacional de Antropologia e Historia [National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico] Restoration. 16th-Century Open Chapel of San Pedro y San Pablo Teposcolula, Mexico.

1995-1999

Restoration. 17th-Century Monastery of Santo Domingo at Oaxaca City, Mexico.

1994-1995

PRECOR Architecture Firm.

Design. Social Rehabilitation Centers at Morelia, Chihuahua and Zacatecas, Mexico.

1993-1994 Centro de Estudios de la Vivienda, CENVI [Housing and Urban Studies Center]

Intern. Social hosing projects at Ecatepec and Los Reyes, Metropolitan Area Mexico City.

1992-1993

Scholarship Summary Timeline While at the Rank of Assistant Professor

The diagram above is a timeline of my trajectory while at the rank of Assistant Professor. The chart can be seen as a graphic representation of the CV including only the most important activities within my scholarly activities and achievements. The chart reads chronologically from left to right having the center rows showing research-related activities. The upper and lower bars are color-coded and represent different category of activities.

AWARDS

RECOGNITIONS BY THE ACADEMY AND THE PROFESSION The research work produced during the last years has received several awards. Academic and professionals associations from the United States, Mexico and Latin America have found compelling work in the pages of my book and the content of my exhibition. I am honored by these recognitions which are testimony of the relevance of my work even when it studies

1.2

buildings that were erected more than four hundred years ago.

PHILIP JOHNSON EXHIBITION CATALOGUE AWARD Society of Architectural Historians 2017 BEST PUBLICATION AWARD, XX PANAMERICAN ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE OF QUITO Category: Theory, History and Criticism 2016 BEST PUBLICATION AWARD, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE OF MEXICO Federaciรณn de Arquitectos de Mexico. 2016 OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP AWARD School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin 2016 BEST PUBLICATION AWARD, MEXICO CITY ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE Colegio de Arquitectos de la Ciudad de Mexico. Mexico City Architecture Biennale 2015 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - COOP. EXCELLENCE CREATIVE RESEARCH AWARD The University of Texas at Austin 2014

Awards and Recognitions

Phillip Johnson Catalogue Award by the Society of Architectural Historians 2017

Best Publication Award. Mexico Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Architecture Biennale by Colegio de Arquitectos de la Ciudad de Mexico and Sociedad de Arquitectos Mexicanos 2015

Best Publication Award. National and International Architecture Biennale by Federacion de Colegios de Arquitectos de la Republica Mexicana 2016

Best publication award. XX Panamerican Architecture Biennale of Quito. International Award in the category: Theory, History and Criticism. 2016

Award received by the research work including the book and the exhibition 2014

Outstanding Scholarship Award by the School of Architecture 2016

2.0 STATEMENT

Opposite page: Scholarship Diagram. The diagram shows how the different aspects of my research and teaching connect with each other. The left area is where most of my research happens, on the right is mostly teaching. As shown, my scholarly work merges teaching and research.

SCHOLARSHIP OVERVIEW

Architects and builders leave traces on their buildings, allowing for reflections on architectural achievements and failures throughout history. The design of buildings is by its nature innovative because it engages a process that addresses challenges for which there is no immediate or obvious response. Learning from the past becomes intrinsic to this creative process and the development of new architectural thoughts and new expressions of architecture. Ideas and concepts transform into material assemblies; architects and builders historically have looked back to meaningful pieces of architecture in order to inform and help advance current and future architectural solutions. Buildings carry forward particular cultural and technological values that are often revealed through close study, and because builders leave their traces on the very works they produce, critical reflections on such architectural artifacts remain indispensable to the collective knowledge and future trajectories of the discipline of architecture. This statement presents my efforts to promote a continual interchange between past practices of architecture and construction with current pedagogy and practices. As an educator, designer, and preservationist with concentration in Latin America, I find these areas of research and development--rooted in history (studying how buildings were made) and learning from the past (applying what can be propelled towards the future)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;to be indispensable for advancing our core responsibilities of the architectural discipline. In my work, building technology is the anchor that ties both the past and future together. With building technology, I aim to direct my scholarship efforts towards a reflection and study of the past in order to explore its influence in the present and its projection to the future. Through my work rooted in history, I strive to advance the collective knowledge of historic architecture by establishing research questions that contextualize and problematize core aspects of historic masonry buildings and stonecutting techniques and assemblies. The intellectual platform on which my inquiries are developed is supported by the history of construction as a field of knowledge. Throughout the history of architecture, structurally spanning members have served as catalyst

for the ingenuity of architects and builders. In

and preservationists of the future. In architecture,

order to achieve stable masonry structures, the

challenging students to think about the

designer needed to embrace a process that

relationships of form, space, and structure

encompassed awareness of the relationship

simultaneously presents unique pedagogic

between the underlying geometry governing the

opportunities that embrace multiple layers of

structure and its structural performance; design

technology and design. In historic preservation,

and making were inseparable in this process.

these same relationships allow students to

During my professional trajectory, I have

identify the range of opportunities that span

developed an interest in specific structural

from historic perspectives of conceiving

components, specializing my research on

buildings to future visions of building

masonry vaulting systems which work by form-

conservation. Either for architects or

performance rather than material strength. By

preservationist, I encourage to simultaneously

studying these structures, I have found that

address both: the historic and the contemporary.

architects of the past exercised unique strategies of thinking and practice, embracing form, space, and structure simultaneously. The interaction between these three components of architectural expression is what I have found resonates with my professional expertise and what will lend itself to frame my investigations. In combination, the reciprocal nature of all these elements composing my research has guided my professional and scholarly activities and will continue to direct my future contributions to the core mission of a research university: creating new knowledge. Through my work in learning from the past, I strive to advance unique methods of teaching that promote inventive forms of thinking that review historic buildings and technologies. I ask students to search for the relationships of historic structures with contemporary design and how that can unfold on meaningful preservation strategies. Throughout my career as an educator, I have fostered an interest in developing pedagogic approaches that promote studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; participation in the construction of their own knowledge. I find this self-construction of knowledge crucial to the formation of architects

Similar to the master builders of the past, I see my mission as an educator to promote that making things and the way in which they are made is central to our understanding of the built environment. Hands-on explorations are commonly found throughout my research projects and the activities in the classroom. Is in the act of making where research and instruction converge and become indistinguishable from one another. Furthermore, I believe that this affinity for learning-through-doing in the classroom is naturally aligned with the traditional paradigm of architectural education.

2.1 ROOTED IN HISTORY

2.1

RESEARCH STATEMENT

Through my trajectory as an academic, my scholarship and professional achievements have gained ground through three distinct forms of reflection: object-based research, curatorship, and dissemination. My work presents a series of studies that lay out a body of knowledge that embraces historic and contemporary ways of approaching buildings and the technology embedded in their materialization. While my work touches tangentially several areas of study such as architectural history, material culture, archeology, historic preservation, and digital visualization, amongst others, I have focused my efforts in finding a dialog that creates resonance within the core aspects of history of construction and building conservation technology. My work has striven to maintain critical focus aligning with my appointment as a scholar with a concentration in Latin America. Throughout these years I have placed my efforts in illuminating how three selected masonry vaulting structures that utilize gothic methods of construction were made in Mexico during the sixteenth century. The work explains the underlying geometry 52

governing their design and the intricacies of their construction while revealing the transference of knowledge and the symbiosis between European geometry and Indigenous construction techniques. The work also reflects on how arch-based structures were unknown for the Indigenous people before the arrival of the Spaniards and how these Indigenous masons embraced the technology mastering the methods in a very short period of time. The works looks at these structures from a perspective that is different to most of the texts that have been published about colonial buildings in Mexico. The underlying theme is to position these structures as an achievement of the indigenous people who actually constructed them. The research exposes new knowledge and new forms to study these buildings, unveiling these three structures to the world and highlighting their local and universal significance. By identifying the converging points of historic manuscripts and digital representation, the body of work produced through this research project has allowed me to gain a reputation as one of the leading scholars in this field of study. The work has served as a model to many who aim to comprehend with detail how masonry formperformance structures were designed and built in the past. And I say that it has served as a model because it also shows how digital technologies can be utilized effectively to understand and visualize structures of this kind. The outcome of this research has taken multiple forms of curatorship and dissemination: a book, Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry / El arte de la canterĂa mixteca, published by the Universidad Nacional AutĂłnoma de Mexico (UNAM) in 2014; a traveling exhibition with the same name that includes thirty-seven panels, digital animations, and fifteen 3D-printed models; and a website 53

(www.mixtec-stonecutting.com) that actively compiles and disseminates the information of this research project, which is widely illustrated by digital animations, drawings, and photographs. In addition, works derived from this project that reflect on particular issues or extensions of the research project have been published as articles in peer-reviewed journals, as book chapters, and as papers for conference proceedings. Along with this scholarly work I have delivered a number of lectures to both academic and public audiences, nationally and internationally. The work of this research on Mexican sixteenthcentury vaults is the result of a cross-pollination between object-based research, investigation of historic documents, and use of contemporary digital tools. The buildings are the core component of this research as they are the only document that testifies to the methods of design and construction from four hundred years ago. Thus, the buildings have served as primary source in this object-based research in order to unfold the intricacies involved in their materialization. Historic documents, which are mostly manuscripts, describe the approach of building construction at the time, revealing how master builders conceived these structures in the past. And finally, the use of digital tools in this project have been instrumental in the recollection of information (through Lidar technology) and the visualization of these studies (3D-modeling and 3D-printing), offering a visual language that contextualizes the work with current trends of architectural practice and graphic representation methods. All of this work has been framed by the sciences of stereotomy and descriptive geometry, which have provided the platform to develop this innovative methodology that is effective for the assessment and analysis of historic buildings. By scrutinizing the Mexican structures through these two

sciences, I have been able to explain their outstanding qualities while also highlighting their contributions to the repertory of forms of world architecture. This research work on sixteenth-century Mexican vaults has been recognized by both, the academy and the profession. Testimony of this recognition are the five national and international awards, including the Phillip Johnson Publication Award by the Society of Architectural Historians (2017); Best Publication Award in the Area of Theory, History, and Criticism at the Latin American Biennale of Quito (2016); Medal of Best Publication at the National and International Architecture Biennale of Mexico (2015), Medal of Best Publication at the Architecture Biennale of Mexico City (2015), and The University of TexasCOOP Excellence Creative Research Award (2014). The School of Architecture has also honored my work with the Outstanding Scholarship Award (2015). While I am really grateful for these recognitions in the academic context, I am extremely pleased to see that the profession has acknowledged the relevance of my work even when it studies buildings that were erected more than four hundred years ago. The traveling exhibition presenting the body of this research has been on display during the past five years at eleven different institutions in Mexico and in the United States (see my CV for details). It has been viewed by thousands of people and has made the work more accessible for students, specialists, and the general public— an audience generally unfamiliar with sixteenthcentury building technology. Finally, the website has taken advantage of the vast possibilities of the internet, reaching thousands and making the body of work available to audiences throughout the world and appealing to current generations of students, academics, and practitioners for whom the internet is the common way of

accessing information. Throughout the duration of this project, my research efforts have been recognized by numerous successful grant awards totaling over $112,000 in support of research, travel, exhibition preparation, book preparation, and subvention for publication (see my CV for details). While this research and production on the subject of sixteenth-century vaults in Mexico have occupied the majority of my energy, I have also engaged in numerous other channels that have maintained a broader reflection of historic and recent structures more generally. These other efforts have materialized in modes of inquiry that include the organization of scholarly events, publications, and hands-on workshops. The organization of academic events such as conferences and symposia have been key components in the dissemination of my work, but mostly, they have been an excellent opportunity to discuss my research findings with other experts in the field while fostering fruitful intellectual exchanges. For example, I chaired the National Meeting of the Construction History Society of America (Austin, 2016), which brought together a group of scholars and professionals from across the country to present and discuss research in this field of study. In addition, I organized two international symposia (Oaxaca 2013 and Austin 2014) that focused on the constructions of masonry vaults during the sixteenth century and the transference of building technology from Europe to the Americas. These events, amongst others, offered opportunities to talk with experts in this area of study, providing a “sounding board” that allowed me to advance my research and formulate new questions. My inquiries on form-performance structures and stereotomy go beyond the sixteenth century in

Mexico. This field of study is fascinating and offers numerous opportunities to grow our knowledge on our discipline as a whole. The works I have developed within this framework include a study of the underlying geometry for the Guastavino Vaults built in the New York Municipal Building in 1913 and research on the Seventh Street Oblique Bridge of St Paul MN built in 1883. These “in-progress” projects and others that reveal intersections between historic architecture, form-performance structures, vaulting systems and historic building representation through digital technologies have been presented in national and international events and published through a variety of papers and proceedings (see my CV for details). They are inquiries that helped to expand and challenge the scope of my primary project. In addition, these projects have helped to position me as an expert and to consolidate my contributions to the collective knowledge on the discipline of building conservation technology and the history of construction. Following the strategy developed through all my scholarship, I propose that there is no real intellectual substitute for hands-on knowledge in architecture. That is why I have engaged, as a scholar, in numerous hands-on exercises that have allowed me to test and expand my explorations on form-performance structures which have helped to interrogate our own disciplinary practices from the inside. By developing full-scale prototypes of masonry vaults using the techniques of thin-tile vaulting, I have been able to materialize and test hypothesis while training students on this art of construction. The goal is to approach these experimental exercises from a variety of angles that include geometry, structures, building technology, fabrication, and materials science, thus allowing me to consolidate my expertise in my area of study. In this workshops everyone 55

works together in developing full-scale structures using clay tile as the main material. I have brought these workshops to the classroom in the regular courses that I teach and I have led other groups that include students, educators, and professionals. Some examples of these hands-on projects organized to expose historic methods and materials are: workshop for the Association for Preservation Technology International in New York (2013); workshop for Escuela Nacional de Restauración, Conservación y Museografía, Mexico City (2014); workshop for the University of Virginia building the Replica of Rotunda’s Dome (2016); and my role as a consultant for vaulting prototypes for the Venice Biennale Exhibition (for Ochsendorf & Block 2016); for a complete list of these workshops please see my CV. Since the beginning of my career, I have found the disciplines of architecture and building conservation to be challenged with internal contradictions and curious predicaments. For example, predicaments exist in the translations between the representation and the fabrication of an architectural object or element; another predicament exists where one finds a gap between the designer’s intentions and the building technology required to materialize those intentions. These reciprocal aspects of architectural practice give rise to processes distinguished by fluctuation and sometimes uncertainty. However, it is in these dilemmas that a designer and a preservationist often finds the feedback necessary for the greatest opportunities of exploration that propels innovation. Therefore, in my interactions with students at every level of the curriculum, I strive to develop the critical thinking and skills necessary for intelligent responses to the predicaments they will undoubtedly face as future professionals in architecture and preservation.

2.2 LEARNING FROM THE PAST

TEACHING STATEMENT

My teaching philosophy sustains that the creative process does not start as a spontaneous act, but emerges from the continuum of architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own history. The portion of my scholarship on pedagogy aims to be consistent with my scholarly work, with efforts in research and teaching supporting one another. The over-arching goal of my work as an educator is to lay out instructional foundations based on core aspects of the disciplines of architecture and historic preservation that are rooted on the intersections between contemporary design, building technology, and historic design practices. I encourage students to identify agents that cross-pollinate our fields of study and help move our disciplines forward. My courses strive to create active learning and participatory environments where students reflect on distinct forms of thinking, listening to each idea critically, and eventually find their own voices.

2.2

Being an architect that studies historic buildings I

and expectations, I have created a variety of

am usually assigned to teach students in both

design-based pedagogical frameworks for

programs: architecture and historic preservation.

different scenarios focusing on problem-setting

The pedagogy embedded in the learning

that challenges the students to explore

environment for architects and specialists in the

opportunities rather than simply providing a

conservation of historic structures offers unique

template for problem-solving. Operating at

forms of active and participatory processes of

different scales that range from urban/landscape

discovery. The distinct forms of thinking required

to single structures, I ask students to work across

by these disciplines, individually and in

the different time-frames found on historic

combination, are increasingly upheld as

buildings and cities. Students reflect how historic

innovative models for integrating content and

urban landscapes are relevant to us because of

developing a range of skills necessary for the

their fine weaving with the trajectory of all

responsibilities of the twenty-first century. Cities

humankind and the culture of architecture itself.

and buildings require governments,

By looking at sites from this perspective students

professionals, and the public to look wisely at the

reflect across cultural and social values that

environmental impact of the building industry,

create interventions loaded with historical

and recycling structures has proven to be a

significance. Despite the challenges, the results

sustainable strategy. Recovering and maintaining

of this strategy are proving to satisfy both the

our past not only makes us culturally richer, but

goals of a studio at the advanced level and the

also makes the use of existing resources more

aspirations of a diverse group of students.

efficient.

Among the successful examples of these results

In design studios, I emphasize the intersections between the historic and the contemporary. Working in the historic urban landscapes of Mexico and Texas, I challenge students to

is one project from my Studio Mexico 2015 developed in the world heritage city of Oaxaca, Mexico, which received an AIA Forth Worth Student Design Award.

identify how historic pieces of architecture can

As an academic, I strive to align my teaching

play a role in a contemporary setting and/or how

endeavors with my research interests. Within the

contemporary pieces of architecture contribute

classroom, I continue to explore the

to the historic fabric. These graduate studios

opportunities of form-performance structures

have presented a very challenging and very

through a series of graduate and undergraduate

exciting teaching environment because students

seminars called Secret Knowledge,

enrolled in them

Rediscovering the Methods and Techniques of

have distinct backgrounds and diverse skills. Students in this studios may include registered architects, students in their last architecture semester, and students who have no experience with buildings and whose goals do not include to work as architects in their professional life. In order to address the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; different needs 57

the Old Master Builders. In these courses, we examine the productive relationships between gravity and geometry that may exists in architectural strcutures. The course presents hands-on teaching scenarios that challenge students to integrate design, geometry, technology, and history. By embracing the â&#x20AC;&#x153;act of

making,â&#x20AC;? students engage creative problem

students who have no background in

solving, making learning more active and

architecture to the studio culture while learning

knowledge more tangible. The class reviews

the art of drafting buildings. Students with

vaulting systems spanning in time from gothic

background have the opportunity to review the

and renaissance to more recent applications

lessons learned during the very first days of their

found in the work of masters such as Gaudi,

architectural education. Differences between

Dieste, Candela, and Guastavino. The course is

architecture and non-architecture students

organized as a form of action-research and

become evident in this class, and I have used this

action-learning manifested through descriptive

situation as an opportunity to create a collective

geometry drawings, physical models and digital

learning environment in which students learn

models. These seminars have grown out of my

from each other. This strategy has also proven

research interests, offering a resource-rich

efficient in preparing students without

environment for a unique form of scholarship

background for the advanced studio mentioned

that stresses the importance of the lessons from

above. The funds from NPS support studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

architecture of the past. The course also reveals

travel, research assistant positions, and the

potential applications in contemporary building

production of professional reports to be

conservation and design practices, while in turn

included in the Library of Congress. These

contributing to a critical reflection in our

reports include a historical summary, a set of

approach to future forms of making architecture.

measured drawings, field sketches, and large-

My ability to develop object-based research has allowed me to create a graduate course named Graphic Documentation. The class focuses on

format photography negatives which will be available for consultation by experts and the general public.

the documentation of historic structures

In the Fall of 2014, I started a core graduate

following the guidelines of the Historic

course named Construction I, which is designed

Architecture Building Survey (HABS) program of

for students who have no background in

the Secretary of the Interior. The projects are

architecture, including students in the historic

assigned to the class as result of a $50,000

preservation program. This course introduces the

contract with the National Park Service (NPS) for

role of building technology in architecture by

the 2016-17 and 2017-18 academic years. The

stressing how meaningful buildings do not

pedagogical strategy for this course is learning-

follow spontaneous inspirations or the capricious

through-doing and students are required to

will of designers, but rather a coherent response

document a particular historic structure through

to the nature of the structure in relationship with

graphic and technical means. As part of this

their material and programmatic needs. By

experience, the course includes a field trip in

looking at the logic of how components

which students learn that there is no substitute

comprise the buildingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; structure, students

for engaging a building through a meticulous

identify the main parts and materials utilized in

survey that obtains primary information from the

buildings while acquiring the vocabulary and

structure itself. The bulk of the work is developed

concepts used in the construction industry. The

within the studio environment, introducing those

course looks at construction of buildings as an

intrinsic part of the design process, introducing

preservation, giving consideration to their

how the notion of systems in architecture

professional requirements. By collaborating with

becomes essential in design practices and in the

colleagues in allied disciplines and seeking a

materialization of the built environment. The

range of authentic design, building technology,

course also reviews the linkage between

and building conservation challenges from local,

construction and the evolution of architecture,

regional, and even global contexts, I strive to

discovering how building technology has

make contributions to the future of architectural

provided the platform to develop new forms of

and historic preservation education while also

conceiving architecture throughout history and

remaining committed to the specific

highlighting how processes and technologies for

pedagogical directives and traditions of the

making architecture unfold through distinct

School of Architecture here at The University of

expressions, forming buildings that convey

Texas at Austin.

particular cultural values. The final assignment in this course merges with the final assignment in my graphic documentation class, giving a comprehensive learning experience to students in the historic preservation program. One of the aspects that I have enjoyed most in this journey as an educator at The University of Texas at Austin has been the opportunity to advise and work with students of Hispanic background and students who have a genuine research interest in Mexico and Latin America. I understand why students gravitate towards me naturally due to my origins and my professional experiences in Mexico. It is extremely exciting to be part of their challenges and successes in their design work and research as they try to find connections with their roots or better understand the richness of the culture found in neighboring countries. Furthermore, I feel grateful to act as mentor for some, as they struggle in finding their voice to be heard in the current social environment. In summary, when approaching teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels, I have consistently made efforts to align my interests in the pedagogy and the reflective practices of the discipline of architecture and historic 59

2.3

FUTURE PROJECTIONS

MOVING FORWARD

As a mechanism for personal and professional review, this statement and the additional materials produced for the evaluation of my promotion to Associate Professor with tenure has provided me the opportunity to reflect upon and synthesize the beliefs, ideas, and work that constitute the foundations upon which I intend to build in the next phase of my career as an architect, preservationist, and educator. As I project forward, I do so with the understanding that the work presented in these documents offers numerous trajectories and each compel deeper study and more extensive collaboration to realize their fullest impact. So, it is with this in mind that I chart a path forward within my school, the university, and disciplines of architecture, historic preservation, and a broader community outside of the academy. My research work offers numerous opportunities for future development and growth. With my book, exhibition, and website, Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry, I have already begun 60

preliminarily work for other projects that build

Marcos Chavez PhD (Instituto de Ingenieria

from my scholarship. This projects include

UNAM), Natalia Garcia PhD (University of

research that aims to highlight the significance of

Morelos, Mexico) and Enrique Rabasa PhD, Ana

all sixteenth-century gothic structures in Mexico

Lopez PhD and Jose Calvo PhD (Polytechnic

understanding them from the perspective of

University of Madrid).

building technology and history of construction. Generally speaking, I see that much of my work in the area on vaulting systems continues to offer robust opportunities for more advanced research and collaboration with specialists from a variety of disciplines. To date, I have collaborated with colleagues from Mexico, Spain, and the United States and these collaborations are becoming stronger. With these connections in place, I am poised to take this research to a greater scale of influence which I will explain in the following paragraphs.

With the execution of this project on SixteenthCentury Rib Vaults in Mexico, my colleagues and I will have access to an invaluable assessment for future applications of technology such as Lidar, construction of scaled mockups, and analysis through seismic table that will allow for the implementation of innovative methodologies that will advance the understating of these structures. Since this project is aiming to obtain funds from NSF PIRE (Program of International Research and Education), the implementation of this and other technologies will allow for

The NSF PIRE program requires that universities

professional work with students of architecture

select one proposal to be submitted for national

and historic preservation, as well as establishing

competition. My university requires a summary of

programs and workshops in a variety of

the proposal for this internal selection. The

educational settings in collaboration with other

proposal that I submitted did not move forward

universities. The initiation of this project and its

to NSF but as a result of this internal submission

scope can be seen at the website I have

the Office of the Vice-President for Research

created:www.elgoticoenmexico.org

handpicked my proposal for further development. Due to its potential for future funding the VPR provided seed money ($25,000) to work on a writing workshop for a multidisciplinary international project on Sixteenth-Century Rib Vaults in Mexico. The project proposes to create a research consortium that I will be leading, whose goal is to perform an inventory and a comprehensive analysis of these structures found in Mexican territory. This ground-breaking work will include many of the aspects of my previous project and will extend its scope to structural engineering and seismic analysis. This research group is formed by Juan Murcia PhD (UT Austin), Fernando Pena PhD and

Future research of vaulting systems and historic manuscripts in which I am interested include the study of the treatise of Juan de Torija (1624-1666). One copy of the first edition located in the Francisco de Burgoa Library of Oaxaca as part of the collection from the Dominican Friars who inhabited the monastery of Santo Domingo during the colonial period. The treatise is unique because it is one of the few documents focused on vaulted structures that traveled to the Americas in the seventeenth. This document is of special interest because it aims to explain a variety of vaults shapes and geometries as surfaces. This approach differs from the usual planar conceptual representation in older

treatises, such as Vandelvira (1575) or Hernan

services to develop these projects because we

Ruiz (1560), proposing an advancement in the

are one of the very few programs in the country

representation but mostly on the conceptual

preparing professionals who can offer the

determination of the spatial and three-

expertise to complete HABS reports. These and

dimensional characteristics of vaulting systems.

other efforts will continue to play an important

When considering the long-term future of my efforts as a professional, I intend to invest in my

role in my career as educator continually moving back and forth between research and pedagogy.

reputation as an expert in vaulted structures to

With the opportunities in research and outreach

assume more leadership positions in an ongoing

afforded by The University of Texas at Austin as

effort to define and work the role of digital

one of the leading research universities in the

technologies into the analysis and assessment of

country, I anticipate that much of my future will

historic structures. With the recent earthquakes in

be invested in solidifying my leadership in the

Mexico, several colonial structures were

fields of history of construction and building

damaged, and I have been contacted to provide

conservation technology. This advancement will

my services as a consultant for the restoration

take place while I strive to develop innovative

efforts of sixteenth-century rib vaults. I foresee

research projects that will construct new

more of these projects emerging as restoration

knowledge. I strongly believe that we, at the

efforts take shape in Mexico within the upcoming

School of Architecture at UT Austin, are poised to

months and years. As a scholar interested in

drive innovation and change at a national, if not

these structures, I see my service as a consultant

global, level based on the unique curricular

as a way to give back and as an opportunity to

frameworks developed for architecture and

contribute to the conservation of outstanding

historic preservation programs. By taking

pieces of architecture forming the heritage of the

advantage of our connections with Mexico and

Americas.

Latin America our reach becomes limitless. My

Within my scholarship, I am aiming to remain involved in current practices of building conservation technology and documentation at large, offering my expertise as a contribution for change and innovations in the field. In the context of teaching, the partnership with the NPS will continue offering more opportunities to work on the creation of HABS reports to be included in the Library of Congress. This type of projects offer a unique experience full of possibilities for students to engage contemporary challenges of conservation and management of heritage sites while contributing to the national efforts to document and safeguard historic properties. It is worth remarking that the NPS officials require our

interest on learning through making will continue to expose students to my research setting up scenarios for studying techniques of the past that cast light for a brighter future. Be it working with professionals or apprentices in the United States or Latin America, my aim is to advance skills and raise awareness, develop courses for historic preservation and adaptive reuse, and continue to advance the building technology sequence within the school of architecture curriculum. I will remain devoted in my commitments to learning from the past by exposing students to the complex, real-world challenges facing future professionals in the fields of architecture and historic preservation.

3.0 RESEARCH STREAMS

MIXTEC STONECUTTING ARTISTRY

RESEARCH ON THREE SIXTEENTHCENTURY RIB-VAULTS IN MEXICO.

Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry is an innovative work that allows to understand a bright moment in Mexican architecture from a unique perspective. The work presented through the outcome of this research project identifies and analyzes three sixteenth-

3.1

century buildings covered with complex ribbed vaults. These three masterpieces of architecture located in the Mixteca of Oaxaca present the same rigor and precision of their European 66

counterparts in the great Gothic cathedrals. Using

construction. This groundbreaking work unveils the

digital technologies, the work addresses the

transfer of knowledge of construction technology

challenge of representing and explaining the

from Europe to the Americas and it is the first of its

details and intricacies applied in the design,

kind that systematically addresses the relationship

development, and construction of the lush vaults

between geometry, stereotomy (the science of

and the stone pieces that shape them. The work

cutting solids), and twenty-first century forms of

responds to a rising global interest emerged from

architectural visualization for sixteenth-century

the need to understand these buildings through

buildings.

the eyes of construction science, focusing on information relevant to the architects and engineers interested in technical aspects and the history of

The work scrutinizes the building techniques used by sixteenth-century master masons and highlights

the indigenous interpretation of occidental building construction principles. The vaults are the means to uncover the reciprocal practice between Mixteca masonry techniques and European construction traditions. The drawings and models illustrating this work (digital and physical) provide visual information of the solutions used for the vaultsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; construction. The final objective of this body of work is to position these buildings in the global context of construction history while reflecting on the transference of building technology from Spain to Mexico. The work has been disseminated in multiple forms including a book and and an exhibition that has traveled for five years (see pages 112-142) reaching thousands of people that vary from scholars to the general public.

Images of the interior of the church of San Juan Bautista Coixtlahuaca

THE BUILDINGS The churches of San Juan Bautista Coixtalhuaca, Santo Domingo Yanhuitlan and the open chapel of San Pedro y San Pablo Teposcolula are usually named the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mixteca Treasuresâ&#x20AC;? due to their monumentality and exquisite construction. The three buildings were built with sophisticated rib-vaults. This research work examines these Mixtec structures from the perspective of stonework practice revealing and understanding how they were designed and built. The buildings chosen for this project are of exceptional construction quality, which emerged as the result of the need to accommodate those thousands who were converting to Christianity in the sixteenth century.

Images of the interior of the church of Santo Domingo Yanhuitlan

The integration of European building technology with indigenous artisanship produced new architectural models during this complex process of changing religion and customs. Each of the churches studied in this project are monuments that testify to the profound social transformations that occurred in the Mixteca region. In order to achieve these complex structures the master builders used the most advanced technology available at their time. The vaults of these churches are geometrically elegant and they are among the few on this continent using this construction system with the rigor of European Gothic buildings. Analyzing these three buildings simultaneously opened the opportunity to compare them and also to understand any possible trends or patterns that help to identify the contributions of the indigenous masons in the process of construction. In addition, it has

Images of the interior of the Open Chapel of Teposcolula

Upper left: Open Chapel Teposcolula Lower Left and right: Church of Yanhuitlan Upper right: and center right: Church of Coixtlahuaca

Drawings: Upper left: Church of Coixtlahuaca Upper right: Church of Yanhuitlan Lower right: Open Chapel of Teposciolula

Images: Upper: Church of Coixtlahuaca Middle: Open chapel Coixtlahuaca Lower: Volume of bathrooms at Yanhuitlan

been assumed that the these three buildings shared the same creator but looking at the construction and composition of each building opens new questions about the authorship.Comparing the buildings with each other (see drawings above) reveals that in spite of the geographic proximity between then their differences are substantial. For details on the conclusions and the research process please refer to the book Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry and visit the website www.mixtec-stonecutting.com

Point-cloud from Lidar documentation

FIELD RESEARCH Lidar technology was used for obtaining the information necessary to perform the analysis of the structures. High-resolution point-clouds provided the data to systematically dissect the buildings and the rib-vaults. In order to solve the questions of construction and underlying geometry, this study based the procedures fo dissection following the the principles for design and construction of rib-vaults presented on sixteenth century manuscripts found in the library of the Polytechnic University of Madrid. This methodology allowed for the creation of an effective bridging between the 16th century and the 21st century technologies.

Design of a rib-vault from Alonso de Vandelviraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s manuscript

INFORMATION PROCESSING The information from the point-cloud was processed in the NURBS environment. Similarly to the procedures explained in sixteenth century manuscripts such as Valdenvira (1580) and Ruiz (1560) the point cloud models where manipulated using the equivalent to the orthographic projections used by the old master builders. The point clouds were sectioned in order to unveil the original procedures executed to define the underlying geometry governing the vaults on the horizontal Underlying geometry in plan

projection. Similarly, vertical sections parallel to each one

Upper left: Church of Coixtlahuaca

governing the geometry of the arches. The combination

of the arches of the vaults allowed to identify arcs

Upper right: Open chapel of Teposcolula

between these two forms of depiction (vertical and

Lower left: Church of Yamhuitlan

conceived.

horizontal) are crucial to discern how these structures were

Top: Coixtlahuaca Middle: Teposcolula Bottom: Yanhuitlan

Sections performed on the point cloud for underlying geometry finding

Underlying geometry and orthographic projections of Teposcolulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vault

Underlying geometry and orthographic projections of Yanhuitlan vault

Underlying geometry and orthographic projections of Coixtlahuaca vault

3D Digital models of the vaults.

NURBS MODELING Modeling in the nurbs environment was done after understanding the underlying geometry governing the shape of each one of the structures. This modeling exercise allowed to understand the stereotomic procedures to make the structure of the vaults. The process of modeling allowed the confirmation and challenges of the hypothesis that emerged from initial observations. Similarly to the procedures applied by the master builders, modeling permitted to recognize challenges and particularities intrinsic to each geometry for each vault. Modeling also let the use of shapes and bodies on the space that became the groundwork for the development of the stereotomy. Nurbs modeling using the information collected from the pointcloud

Information processing using point-cloud and Nurbs

STEREOTOMY In addition to the analysis of the underlying geometry governing the shape of the vaults, the analysis involved the recreation of the stone-carving solutions necessary to achieve the construction of the stone structures. 3D animations showing these solutions can be found in this researchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website:www.mixtec-stonecutting.com The study of the stereotomy is crucial for the understanding of the technology transfer that took place in this part of the world 3D Analysis and modeling in the NURBS environment

during the sixteenth century. Stereotomy also reveals the level of sophistication of the carving solutions for each piece of the vault in order to guarantee the structural stability of the vault. In addition, stereotomy studies allow to understand with more detail the skills that the indigenous people of Mexico had to learn while opening doors for comparing with contemporary

Drawings of keystones, bosses and tas-de-charge

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Stereotomy: Orthographic projections of Yanhiutlanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s keystone

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Stereotomy: Orthographic projections of Yanhiutlanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boss

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Stereotomy: Orthographic projections of Teposcolulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boss keystone

Sequence of carving process of two different bosses.

vaults in Europe and the rest of the world. Finally, the same stereotomy studies help to create hypothesis regarding the carving procedures that masons had to follow in order to carve each one of these complex pieces of stone which also brings to light the amount of material necessary to built each structure and the size of the pieces to be obtained from the quarry. For more information on the stereotomy and digital animations showing the carving processes illustrated in the page please refer to the book and visit www.mixtec-stonecutting.com

3.12 3D PRINTING

STEREOTOMY AT SCALE The investigation project on sixteenth-century vaults of Oaxaca, Mexico included experimentation with 3D printing. In addition to test this mode of fabrication and its implications for sixteenthcentury structures, 3D printing was used as a vehicle of representation for dissemination. The process of printing allowed for an interpretation of the stone carving techniques and the methods of assembly used in these three sixteenth-century structures. As any other experimentation process, this task involved the understanding of the tool as well as the material and its behavior. Although there is a big difference is size and weight compared with the actual vaults, using 3D printing was an efficient tool in comprehending some of the intricacies found in the construction of structures of this nature. Similarly, it was possible to attain an approximation to the structural behavior of the ribs and how stereotomy rules need to apply for the stability of the structures.

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Assembly of the 3D-printed model of Teposcolulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vault

MODELING AND ASSEMBLY The models were designed and printed at 1:20 scale following the stereotomy rules that emerged from the study of the actual buildings. Similarly to the sixteenth-century vaults, the pieces of the models form a 3D puzzle that emulates a compression-based structure. This form of scrutinizing the vaults offers a thorough review of the components that allows the identification of the complexities involved in the carving of each stone while offering an effective presentation for dissemination and understanding of these structures. In addition, breaking the models in pieces resulted effective for transportation of the traveling exhibition. Each vault model was assembled and disassembled in situ and transported in suitcases when traveling. Assembling the models was an excellent educative experience for those who helped when putting together the exhibition.

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Models of the vaults of Yanhuitlan and Coixtlahuaca

KEYSTONES AND BOSSES In addition to the vault models, the project included a set of four keystones for each vault at scale of 1:7.5. The larger scale of these pieces offered possibilities to identify the stereotomic details that each one of these pieces presents. Similarly to the vault models, the large bosses and keystones offered a visual comparative analysis that unveiled how each one the vaults was designed differently. The span-depth ratio of the ribs and the solutions for the different rib intersections changes substantially from vault to vault. Each on these pieces was paired with their respective orthographic projections (found in page 86-89 of this document) in order to provide a cohesive experience that depicts the process of conception and carving for each one of these stone sculptures (see images on page 95).

Keystones and bosses printed at larger scale to reveal stereotomy detail

A short essay on the 3D printing was published in the Texas Architect Magazine

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GUASTAVINO VAULTS

THE VAULTS OF THE MUNICIPAL BUILDING IN NEW YORK The vaulting system for the ground floor of the Municipal Building in New York was designed and built by Guastavino Co. Commissioned by the architects of record, McKim, Mead & White, the Guastavino’s developed what I consider is their most geometry-complex work in the United States and in the Americas. These tile vaults present an

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“organic” shape based on irregular geometries. After visiting, I took the task to uncover how is that they were conceived and what is the undelrying geometry governing their construction

Drawings found in the sixteenthcentury treatise of Alonso de Vandelvira showing solutions for vaults of irregular plan

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Analysis of original drawings identifying if basket arches or ellipses were used for the solution of the vaults

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PHOTOGRAMMETRY In order to identify the underlying geometry governing the vaults I used a digital photogrammetric process that allowed to reveal the directrices and the generatrices of the arches and vaults. Furthermore, this process allowed to understand the criteria used by the Guastavinos to solve the geometric and constructive challenge created by a plan of irregular bays and a limit on the impost and the rise of the arches. The digital line drawings obtained from the photogrammetry tools were processed in the nurbs environment creating elaborate drawings of multiple surfaces. This process allowed to have an understanding of the vaults and answer the questions of geometry and design proposed by this research project.

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The information from the digital analysis was cross-referenced with the information provided by the original Guastavino drawings. The questions that emerged from this process and the nuances of this vaulting systems are better explained in an article to be found within the “dissemination” section of this dossier (page 222). As seen in the images on this page, in addition to the drawings this project involved the construction of a replica of one of the irregular plan vaults. This construction experience helped to confirm hypothesis and test the structural conditions of the structure. More on this construction experiences with tile vaults an their relationship with my research can be found in the section titled “hands-on” of this dossier (page 354).

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THE SEVENTH ST IMPROVEMENT ARCH OF ST PAUL MN. Intersections between railroads and roads or rivers are not usually perpendicular. This is a challenge many engineers and builder who specialized on the construction of bridges during the early stages of the industrial revolution. Engineers and masons then had to design efficient solutions to this problem. The constructive challenge was not new and the skew arches are

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The problem of containing the stresses within an skew arch is known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;thrust to the voidâ&#x20AC;? which is relevant in oblique bridges due to the enormous amount of load that they had to support. Cars, trucks and trains crossed on top of these bridges and room for error was not allowed. In order to avoid the thrust to the void all the bed-joints in the head of the arches should be perpendicular to the wall surface; in other words, perpendicular to the oblique vertical plane slicing the vault. Understanding this principle, two solutions for this masonry constructive challenge emerged but this short text focuses only on the solution for this bridge. The solution shown in the 7th Street Improvement Arches of St Paul finds its origins in England. This solution uses voussoirs being laid in parallel courses along the cylinderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surface which are perpendicular to the head of the vault. The result of this operation is joints forming helicoids at the intrados of the vault showing a spiral coursing. The consequences is that all bed-joints (contact 105

Drawing and analysis of the helicoidal surfaces formed within the voussoirs of the bridge

surface between voussoirs) are ruled surfaces while the intrados surface of the vault is simply cylindrical. The twist of the bedjoints presented a challenge for carving but nothing that masons would not be able to achieve by the end of the 19th century. The gain of this solution is that all the voussoirs are exactly the same making possible a standard production and streamlining the construction process involved in making the vaults. The trust to the void is minimized in this solution since no acute angle is present in the voussoirsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shape. The seventh street improvement arches, historic landmark in the city of Saint Paul Minnesota, are an outstanding example of this technology of masonry construction. As part of the investigation process, a construction worksop that involved hand-drafting at full scale and stone carving was undertaken. This is a common component of my research work where I engage on hands-on experiences in order to test

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hypothesis, learn the details and educate young professionals in the art of stereotomy and compression-based structures. The workshop involved carving aerocrete, which is a light material that is easy to carve and resembles pieces of lime stone. Each of the the voussoirs was carved by hand and later placed to form the vault and have insights about the construction process and the structural behavior of the vault and arches. The study also involved analysis of different solutions for skew arches, which are strongly connected to oblique vaults. More information on the results of this research project can be read in the paper included in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;disseminationâ&#x20AC;? section of this dossier (page 234)

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MIXTEC STONECUTTING ARTISTRY / EL ARTE DE LA CANTERIA MIXTECA The results of this research have been published in a bilingual book (english and spanish) titled: Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry / El arte de la canteria mixteca. As seen in the Curriculum Vitae section of this document (page 40), the book has been awarded numerous times by the profession and the academy in Mexico, Latin America, and the United States. This widely illustrated

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MIXTEC STONECUTTING ARTISTRY: A TRAVELING EXHIBITION A traveling exhibition was created from the findings of the research on sixteenth-century rib-vaults in Oaxaca, Mexico. I curated the entire exhibition which allowed to disseminate the work in a more tangible manner and reach a larger audience that included students, professors, professionals and the general public. This exhibition was well received in different cultural

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ON DISPLAY NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY An English and a Spanish version of the entire material was created including text in Mixteco language in both versions. When on display (in either language) the exhibition contains thirty-seven widely illustrated and explained panels, three large vault models and twelve models of the vaultâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bosses (four per vault). Within the exhibit there is also a tenminutes looping video that shows point-cloud and digital animations that reveal the processes involved in the construction of the vaults. Visitors find in the panels, models and videos an explanation on the construction of these buildings by indigenous masons, understanding their geometric intricacies and design principles. The display starts with an introduction, then looks at each church individually, shows the methodology for the research, and highlights the structures as achievements of the indigenous people of Mexico. When walking through the exhibit the visitor is able to learn about these outstanding pieces of Mexican architecture getting a sense of their historic relevance and the efforts placed to erect them. More images of the exhibition in each one the venues at the research website: mixtec-stonecutting.com -.-

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EXHIBITION: MIXTECOS ÑUU DZAHUI, SEÑORES DE LA LLUVIA "MIXTECOS ÑUU DZAHUI, SEÑORES DE LA LLUVIA” IN PALACIO NACIONAL MEXICO CITY. This ambitious exhibition shows the most important stories, archeological pieces and other artistic and intellectual manifestations of this ethnic group of Mexico. The 3D models created for Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry, text, photographs and 3D animations are included in this narrative as a demonstration of the architecture created by the Mixtecos in the 16th century. This section of the exhibition makes emphasis on the sophisticated stonecutting and constructions abilities of this culture. The pieces on display are in the main gallery of the

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National Palace (Spanish: Palacio Nacional, the seat of the federal executive government in Mexico) located on Mexico City's main square, the "Plaza de la Constitución" also known as "El Zócalo.” The opening ceremony took place this past January 11th 2018, the event was presided by José Antonio González Anaya, Treasury Secretary; María Cristina García Cepeda, Culture Secretary, and Alejandro Murat, Governor of the State of Oaxaca. This is an exhibition of national importance in Mexico. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog that includes text from eight different experts in this subject (including mine). Text and images from the catalogue can be found in the “research dissemination” section of this document (page 282) and more images of the exhibit at www.mixtec-stonecutting.com

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NEWS AND MEDIA The exhibition and the activities that accompanied it were covered by several media outlets during the opening days. These events included such as symposia, lectures, and gallery talks. Newspapers and other forms of dissemination looked at the content of the exhibition and reported on it. The work reached local and national attention explaining the relevance of the structures, how the exhibition created awareness for heritage conservation, and even how vaulting systems can offer and alternative methods of construction for contemporary needs. The press coverage was an excellent tool to bring this work to the attention of the public and increase the number of visitors. This helped to accomplish one of the goals of this exhibition which is to reach an audience that is not commonly exposed to this type of studies.

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RAYUELA Qué bien saben los diputados eso de dar el alón, para comerse la pechuga

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Las bóvedas que conforman la muestra son únicas en México y Latinoamérica y forman parte del patrimonio cultural nacional. Foto kubomaestro.com

Por: Miriam Pulido

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7 de julio de 2014.- La forma de las bóvedas de algunos edificios históricos no son iguales. Para muestra de ello, la exposición El Arte de la Cantería Mixteca: Las bóvedas nervadas renacentistas en la Mixteca de Oaxaca que se inaugura esta noche en la Escuela Superior de Arquitectura (Esarq), donde se presenta el trabajo de investigación de Benjamín Ibarra. La muestra tiene su enfoque en tres edificios que se construyeron en el siglo XVI en Oaxaca y que son patrimonio cultural de México: los conventos de San Pedro y San Pablo Teposcolula, Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán y San Juan Bautista Coixtlahuaca, que son edificaciones “monumentales y, como todo lo que se hizo en aquella época, están construidos con piedra”, agregó el maestro en Arquitectura. El tipo de bóvedas que tienen éstos inmuebles son “únicas en el país y únicas a nivel Latinoamérica, porque usan el mismo sistema constructivo que se utilizó en las catedrales góticas europeas”, explicó Ibarra, por lo que para poder realizarlas tuvo que haber llegado “gente con

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Avanza la aprobación exprés de la reforma electoral en los ayuntamientos Tragedia en Brasil. Alemania humilla al pentacampeón

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DIGITAL DISSEMINATION A website has been published as a complement to this body of work including a summary and the digital animations. While the book is aimed to reach experts and people interested within the Americas, the website is aimed to reach a larger audience around the globe. The website has also allowed to present much of the digital media created by the research project. Materials such as 3D animations can only be seen within the digital environment and the website has offered an excellent platform for the dissemination of this type of work. In addition, audience from all over the world, who do not have access to the book or the exhibition, have been able to look and study some of the findings of this project. Several thousands of people have visited the website since it was published. Please visit the website for more details: mixtec-stonecutting.com -.-

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ARTICLES The texts included in this section are examples of the types of inquiries that emerge from my research. These inquiries contextualize and problematize core aspects of historic masonry buildings and stonecutting techniques and assemblies. These three selected articles show the scope of the work and the possible pathways that investigations of this kind may take. The articles are not purely historical neither they are purely technical

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• 4.31 Ibarra-Sevilla, Benjamin. From Stone Fretwork to Ribbed Vaults, Sixteenth-century Masonry Construction Techniques of the Mexican Indigenous People. Informes de la Construcción Vol. 65, Instituto Eduardo Torroja, Spain, Vol. 65, No EXTRA-2, 65-80 (2014). • 4.32 Ibarra-Sevilla, Benjamin. First ribbed vaults of the Americas: Indigenous people skills, construction and crafting processes in the Mixtec region of southern Mexico. Construction History Journal Vol 28 No.1, 1-25 (2013). • 4.33 Ibarra-Sevilla, Benjamin. The Hidden Face of the Vault: Unveiling the Expression of the Avant-Garde Through the Use of the Sphere in Teposcolula’s Open Chapel, Nexus, Architecture and Mathematics. Volume 15, Issue 1, 107-125 (2013).

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PAPERS FOR CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS The selected materials presented in the following pages are examples show other endeavors from my research. Through my academic career I strive to advance the collective knowledge of historic architecture by establishing research questions that contextualize and problematize core aspects of historic masonry buildings, their building techniques and their assemblies. The

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• 4.41 Ibarra-Sevilla, Benjamin. Unusual Conditions = Novel Solutions: Guastavino’s Strategies And Underlying Geometry For The Vaults Of Irregular Plan In New York Municipal Building, Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Construction History Chicago, 329-338 (2015) •4.42 Ibarra-Sevilla, Benjamin. Study of the Helicoidal Oblique Bridge at Seventh Street in St Paul Minnesota; The Problem of the Trust to the VoID in Ancient Masonry Construction, Presented at the 4th Biennial Meeting of the Construction History Society of America, MIT. (2012). •4.43 Ibarra-Sevilla, Benjamin. Las bóvedas tabicadas de Guastavino para el edificio municipal de Nueva York, soluciones de planta irregular y flecha limitada. Conference Proceedings 10º Congreso Nacional y 2º Congreso Internacional Hispanoamericano en Historia de la Construcción. San Sebastian, Spain. Instituto Juan de Herrera, Vol 2, 783-795, (2017). •4.44 Ibarra-Sevilla, Benjamin. La Canteria Renacentista de la mixteca; Análisis esteretómico de tres bovedas nervadas en Oaxaca, Mexico. Conference Proceedings 7º Congreso Nacional en Historia de la Construccion. Santiago de Compostela. Instituto Juan de Herrera, Spain, 674-685, (2011).

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BOOK CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES BY INVITATION The following pages show a number of articles and essays written by request of the editorial coordinators. These pieces of writing reflect a broader scope of my expertise and my interest within the fields of History of Construction and Historic Preservation. The texts also embrace different scales ranging from the usual building and its technology to reflections that look

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4.51 LA CANTERÍA DE LAS BÓVEDAS DEL SIGLO XVI; HABILIDADES MIXTECAS EN LA TALLA DE PIEDRA Y LA CONSTRUCCIÓN MONUMENTAL by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Chapter for the Exhibition Catalogue “Ñuu Dzahui” Mixtecos, Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, Gobierno de Mexico. p 315-320 2018 3D Printes Model of the Vaults of the Church fo Yanhuitlán

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4.52 THE CITY OF OAXACA AS WORLD HERITAGE SITE: CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME FOR REACHING INTEGRATED CONSERVATION by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Forty years after the Manifest of Amsterdam: Reflections on the past, present and future of Integrated Conservation, Centre for Advanced Studies in Integrated Conservation - CECI, Instituto PolitÃ©cnico do Porto, Porto, Portugal. p. 48-64, Article in English, Spanish and Portuguese. 2018

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4.53 CONSTRUCTION HISTORY RESEARCH OF EARLY COLONIAL BUILDINGS IN CENTRAL AMERICA, NEW DOORS FOR INTERPRETATION by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Construction History Journal No. 29 p. 7-12, Essay in English 2016

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4.54 LA CIUDAD DE OAXACA COMO PATRIMONIO DE LA HUMANIDAD by Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Book in commemoration of the 475th anniversary of Oaxaca City. Casa de la Ciudad de Oaxaca. p. 9-31, Chapter in Spanish 2007

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ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA AND COLLOQUIA The organization of academic events such as conferences and symposia have been key components in the dissemination of my work, but mostly, they have been an excellent opportunity to discuss my research findings with other experts in the field while fostering fruitful intellectual exchanges. During these events i have had the opportunity to reach different audiences that range

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independently or in collaboration with other academics from other institutions. See my CV for a complete list of scholarly events.

SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL EN TRANSFERENCIA DE LA TECNOLOGIA DE LA CONSTRUCCION EN EL SIGLO XVI This three-day symposium at the Centro Cultural San Pablo in Oaxaca City was celebrated in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition in 2013. The event brought together speakers from Spain, Mexico, and United States. In addition to the speakers session, the symposium offered all attendants a visit to the churches in la Mixteca where attendants and speakers experienced these magnificent buildings. In addition, a visit to a working quarry and a stone masons shop was included to familiarize the audience to the tasks necessary for carving and quarrying the stone for building construction.

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COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL, APORTACIONES IBEROAMERICANAS A LA CONSTRUCCION DE CUBIERTAS ARQUITECTONICAS This three-day colloquium at the School of Architecture at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) was celebrated in previous to the opening of the exhibition in 2013. The event brought together speakers from Spain, Mexico, and United States. The topic was the contribution of Ibero American architects and engineers to the repertory of roof forms. Talks included reflections on colonial buildings and also figures such as Felix Candela and Eduardo Torroja. In addition to the speakers session, the symposium offered all attendants a visit to the Cathedral of Mexico (which has rib-vaults) and other emblematic buildings of Mexico City.

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INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON TRANSFERENCE OF BUILDING TECHNOLOGY FROM SPAIN TO MEXICO IN THE 16TH CENTURY This two-day colloquium at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin was celebrated in conjunction to the opening of the exhibition in 2015. The event brought together speakers from Mexico, and United States.

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5TH BIENNIAL MEETING OF THE CONSTRUCTION HISTORY SOCIETY OF AMERICA This three-day conference was the national meeting of the Construction History Society of America. The event was celebrated at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016 where I acted as chair for the meeting. The event brought together speakers from United States and Latin America to present and discuss papers in different themes within the history of constructionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s field of study. In addition to the speakers sessions, the conference offered tours to the architectural highlights and infrastructure landmarks of the City of Austin and its surrounding. For a complete view on the conference and the book of abstracts please visit the website that I created for this conference: http://www.chsa-5thbiennial.org Images of the CHSA 5th Biennial Meeting at UT Austin in 2016

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SECRET KNOWLEDGE, REDISCOVERING THE METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF THE OLD MASTER BUILDERS The underlying knowledge thread for this course is thatÂ buildings/structures that work with gravity are especially interesting because their form do not follow spontaneous inspirations or capricious will of designers but a coherent

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Simple form finding is not what intrigues to this class, but the structural behavior of the form and its relationship with materials, especially those capable of handling compressive stress. This class is designed to engage a learning environment in which we will study structures dealing with the advantages of geometry rather than material strength. The class is founded on two critical aspects for architecture: history and geometry.Â In summary, this course is designed to engage a learning environment in which students study structures dealing with the virtue of geometry rather than material strength. The class focuses on solving stereotomy problems of different types of vaults. The examples seen in this pages range from Fan Vaults to Sail Vaults made by courses of different geometries.

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Models produced by students in class. No glue holds the pieces together but the relationship between gravity and form.

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INSTALLATION, PROVISIONAL SHELTER AT SILVER LAKE PARK MN A summer design-build project named “The Cloud” that culminated in the construction of an installation at Silver Lake Park in MN. The purpose of this temporary pavilion is to provide a shelter for teaching children about arts and nature. This prototype was entirely hand crafted. The pavilion was made of light materials. The frames forming the supporting structure used

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moved with the wind. The fabric was manufactured accordingly to form a double curvature geometry generated by parabolas and circumferences. Through tessellations embedded in the shape of the fabric is that the desired shape was achieved. The screen surrounding the structure was made of Jute Twine in order to merge with the natural context.â&#x20AC;¨ The Cloud is the result of a Summer design-build project.and was designed Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla and built by Joshua Grenierand Kirk Mazzeo. Supported by the School of Architecture, University of Minnesota and Horty Foundation who provided funds to this project.

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THIN TIMBREL TILE VAULT INVESTIGATIONS AND WORKSHOPS My experience with vaulting systems have allowed the inclusion of several hands-on workshops in multiple scenarios. These investigations through making have provided a vehicle for testing and learning about the relationships between form and structure. Simultaneously, the workshops presented the opportunity to teach the methods to professionals and students

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Workshops, hands-on construction of Thin Tile Vaults using ancient building techniques

Workshop for APT International Conference in New York City. Twenty hours workshop. Co-taught with Kent Diebolt and David Lopez

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Workshop for National School of Restoration (ENCRyM) in Mexico City. Thirty hours workshop.

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Single sail vault. Twenty hours workshop at South Dakota State University. Co-taught with Jessica Garcia Fritz

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Replica of Jefferson Rotunda. Twentyhours workshop at University of Virginia. Co-taught with Ben Hays

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