La visión técnica del arquitecto: Francisco Hernández-Rubio y el hormigón armado

Abstract

The author comments on an unpublihed lecture given by the Jerez architect Francisco Hernández-Rubio. Hernández-Rubio 's views on a variety of artistic styles are discussed, as is his deep undersanding -relatively early in the history of Spanish architecture- of the technique of using reinforced concrete. This is, then, an attempt t do justice to a seriours professional of interest study of the late introduction in Spain of reinforced concrete, and of the polemical discussions between engineers and architects: in this respect, Hernández-Rubio was a remarkable exception, in that he, together with sorne other architets, did not neglect the role played in his art by technical materials and methods.