Rupturas y transformaciones arquitectónicas

This work presents a historical, architectural, and graphic investigation of the transformations of the building of the Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario in Bogotá in the twentieth century. It was these transformations that most significantly affected the university and its surrounding buildings, modified what had been preserved until the nineteenth century, and placed it in the architectural context we know today. The concept of transformation implies the existence of a previous architectural, urban, and historical substratum, and the purpose of this book is precisely to evidence the context of the described alterations. To the effect, the study moves back in time to the sixteenth century in the city of Santafé de Bogotá with relevant information on the concepts that existed in Spain at the time, in terms of how to found, build, and populate cities in the New World. As major milestones, the study highlights the construction of the Republican Cloister in 1900, the monument to the founder, the great transformation resulting from the 1917 earthquake, the neocolonial movement in the 1950s, and the arrival of modern architecture with the new towers in 1970. More than 100 illustrations facilitate the comprehension and visualization of this extensive research, and 29 planimetric drawings help to translate these transformations into architectural language.