Las técnicas constructivas en la formación de Al-Andalus

Abstract

The study of the constructive techniques in the formation of Al-Andalus is framed inside the debate about the transition from the late antiquity to the high Middle Ages and from the analysis of the processes that participate in the architectural production. Along the VIII and IX centuries, it is observed the difficulties in the recovery and standardization of the architectural demand where the projects of buildings in arranged masonry cohabit with the ones built in «tapial» (walls of compressed mud). This duality in the constructive techniques is an example of the slow and difficult the Islam formation progress of the peninsula that culminated in the X century with the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba and that it supposed the development of a real constructive programme of Al-Andalus.