062 July 2014

The summer course entitled Architect Engineers, organised by the Fundación Juanelo Turriano and the Madrid School of Architecture, came to a close on 18 July.

Held under the leadership of Pedro Navascués Palacio, the course was attended by 23 students.

The full programme is available here.

Fernando Sáenz Ridruejo, member of the Fundación Juanelo Turriano Trust, has donated the manuscript of the 3rd and 4th volumes of the second part of Belidor’s oeuvre entitled Traducción literal de las principales obras hidráulicas de Mr. Belidor (literal translation of Mr Belidor’s major waterworks), dated at Cartagena de Indias in 1794-1795.

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The PDF version of the book of abstracts is now available for the 12th Congress organised by the Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y las Técnicas (SEHCYT, Spanish society on the history of science and technology), entitled Science and technology between war and peace, to be held at the Complutense University of Madrid on 10-12 September 2014.

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Architect and scholar José Ramón Soraluce Blond has published a new book entitledArquitectura restaurada de Galicia. Orígenes (Galicia’s restored architecture, origins), in which he describes the restoration of Galician monuments in the pre- and post-Civil War periods and since 1978.