On 21 October, Dr Josep Lluis i Ginovart was invited to give a talk entitled "Las estructuras desmontables en la construcción gótica. Construir versus de-construir en el presbiterio de la catedral de Tortosa (1374 y 1441)" [Demountable Structures in Gothic Architecture: Construction versus Deconstruction in the Tortosa Cathedral's Presbytery (1374 and 1441)]. It was delivered as part of the international symposium Obra Congrua 1416, held between 19 and 21 October 2016 at the University of Girona to mark the 600th anniversary of the consultation on the Girona Cathedral.
Symposium participants included historians, architects and engineers. They analysed Gothic buildings from around the Peninsula and Europe, using the consultation on the Girona Cathedral as a common thread; a consultation involving two of the Tortosa Cathedral's architects. Now, 600 years later, Dr Josep Lluis i Ginovart, currently magister operis sedis Dertosae (chief architect for the Tortosa Cathedral), was the only cathedral architect to attend as successor to the master builders from 1416.
The event was co-organised by the DOCOGOTHIC Network, CATS research group and IRH-2014 SGR 110 project to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the famous consultation on the Girona Cathedral, held to decide whether to build three naves or one single nave, which would ultimately become the world's widest Gothic nave.
Architect (PhD) Josep Lluis i Ginovart is the director of the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, a researcher and director of the Architectural Heritage Research Group (PATRIARQ).
