Hierro Espania

BIBLIOTECA MUNDO HISPÁNICO
DE LA FUNDACIÓN IBERDROLA

Pedro Navascués Palacio es Doctor en Filosofía y Letras, Sección de Historia,

Clifford en España. Un fotógrafo en la corte de Isabel II

Imágenes urbanas del mundo hispánico

Richard Kagan

Carlos V. La imagen del poder en el Renacimiento

Fernando Checa Cremades

Las Catedrales del Nuevo Mundo

Pedro Navascués Palacio

MonasteriosIberoamericanos

Antonio Bonet Correa

Luisa Elena Alcalá

La nobleza ante el rey

Joaquín Yarza

Fortificaciones en Iberoamérica

Ramón Gutiérrez

La dinastía de los Trastámara

Julio Valdeón Baruque

Arquitectura e ingeniería del hierro en España (1814-1936)

Pedro Navascués Palacio

Pedro Navascués Palacio

Fundaciones jesuíticas en Iberoamérica

ARQUITECTURA E INGENIERÍA DEL HIERRO EN ESPAÑA(1814-1936)

Lee Fontanella

ARQUITECTURA E INGENIERÍA DEL HIERRO

por la Universidad Central de Madrid (1971). Desde 1964 enseña en la Escuela
Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, donde
es catedrático de Historia del Arte y de la Arquitectura desde 1978. Ha publicado

EN ESPAÑA (1814-1936)

varias decenas de libros y artículos sobre historia de la arquitectura española,habiendo dedicado al siglo XIX una buena parte de ellos. Es miembro de la Real
Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (1998) donde actualmente ejerce el
cargo de Vicedirector. En 2003 fue investido Doctor Honoris Causa por la Universidad
de Coimbra.

ARQUITECTURA E INGENIERÍA DEL HIERRO
EN ESPAÑA (1814-1936)

ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING OF IRON
IN SPAIN (1814-1936)

Esta edición, realizadapor la Fundación Iberdrola,
consta de 5.500 ejemplares,
de los cuales 250 están numerados del 1 al 250
y 27 van identificados con las letras del abecedario

ARQUITECTURA E INGENIERÍA DEL HIERRO
EN ESPAÑA (1814-1936)

ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING OF IRON
IN SPAIN (1814-1936)

Pedro Navascués Palacio

I take special satisfaction in presenting the work Iron Architecture and Engineering in Spain, aunique tourde-force by professor Pedro Navascués published by the Iberdrola Foundation as part of its collection, Library
of the Spanish World.
This exhaustive work serves to fill a gap in the study and cataloging of the important infrastructures
and constructions built of iron that marked a fundamental period in the history of our country’s Architecture and
Engineering, and thus of Spain’s economicand social evolution.
Through the pages of this book, and what they illustrate, the reader will be able to reconstruct important events from a time filled with thrilling changes and profound transformations that laid the foundations
for much of our later industrial development.
To speak of architecture and engineering in iron and its derivatives is to speak of the Industrial Revolution, ofprogress and advancement in all fields, as well as the possibility of exploring new techniques and
materials. And it means discussing the results of all this: the construction of large works of infrastructure such
as bridges, viaducts and railway stations, but also markets, crystal palaces, theaters and bullrings.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, iron fever was ubiquitous: iron permittedpreviously
inconceivable solutions and became the protagonist of architecture that is still with us today and has become
a part of a historical heritage of the first order that we must recover and preserve.
A fine example of all this is the ferry bridge over the Bilbao Estuary, which was recently declared a
World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Designed in 1893 by Alberto de Palacio, it was the first everbuilt in the world
and it symbolizes the zenith of Basque industrial society of its time.
Such important figures as Eduardo Saavedra, Pablo Alzola y Minondo, Evaristo Churruca and Leonardo
Torres Quevedo—the maximum representatives of this iron architecture and engineering—are present and
recognized in this work Iberdrola has chosen to publish as an example of its commitment to the arts,...