233 November 2024

The online catalogue is now available for Agustín de Betancourt 1758-1824. Fundador de la Escuela de Caminos y Canales. Ingeniero cosmopolita [Agustín de Betancourt 1758-1824. Founder of the School of Civil Engineering, cosmopolitan engineer], which was on display in the National Library of Spain from 6 March to 16 June 2024.

The exhibition was organised by the National Library of Spain, the Regional Government of the Canary Islands, the Puerto de la Cruz City Council, the Technical University of Madrid, the Chartered Institute of Civil Engineers, the Centre for Public Works Studies and Experimentation and the Fundación Juanelo Turriano.

The organisers are grateful to the institutions that made the exhibit and its catalogue possible with images and loans from their collections.

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The Fundación Juanelo Turriano would like to issue a reminder that papers can still be submitted for some of our prizes:

Pedro Navascués Prize for PhD theses. Second edition. Submissions accepted until 20 December 2024.
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García-Diego International Prize. Thirteenth edition. Submissions accepted until 29 May 2025.
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Pepa Cassinello will present her book Eduardo Torroja. The Man and His Legacy at the Eduardo Torroja Institute for Construction Science on 11 December at 6:30 PM.

David Fernández-Ordóñez will be one of the participants.

Pepa Cassinello and David Fernández-Ordóñez are members of the Advisory Commission and trustees of the Foundation.

Abstracts are being accepted through 22 December 2024 for the Twelfth International Seminar on Industrial Heritage organised by the G+I_PAI Classroom on Management and Assistance for Architecture and Industry’s Cultural Heritage.

The seminar will be held at the Technical University of Madrid’s Schools of Architecture and Industrial Engineering on 3 and 4 April 2025 under the theme Industrial depopulation, heritage repopulation.

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Abstracts are being accepted through 15 February 2025 for the international conference Traces of Power: Engineers Between Palaces and Fortifications (1746-1808), to be held at the University of Seville from 10 to 12 June 2025.

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