Resumen

RABANAL YUS, Aurora. El concepto de ciudad en los tratados de arquitectura militar y fortificación del siglo XVIII en España. An. Inst. Investig. Estét [online]. 2002, vol.24, n.81, pp.33-52. ISSN 0185-1276.

An analysis of the concept of the geometrical, rational city as it was imposed via theoretical treatises on Military Architecture and Fortification written by Spanish authors or translated into Spanish in the course of the eighteenth century. The works of the first half of the century inclined towards radiocentric layouts (Sebastián Fernández Medrano, Tosca, Cassani) of clearly Vitruvian heritage, optimal for their defensive qualities; they also offered a clear definition of concrete typologies of military buildings and their appropriate locations in the city. The second half of the century affirmed the preference for orthogonal layouts in checkerboard, also of classical heritage, but of greater esthetic value. Typologies and locations of the principal buildings, not only military but also public, were specified (Muller, Prosperi, Lucuze, Le Blond). This was the type of city that imposed itself in Spain and the Americas, the direct origin of the contemporary rational city.