La Lonja by Guillem Sagrera. The construction of the space
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https://doi.org/10.5821/palimpsesto.10.3655Keywords:
Lonja, Sagrera, MallorcaAbstract
To understand La Lonja is to understand the beginnings of themodern times. The epoch of the dual power of kings and bishopsand the buildings whose construction lasted centuriesis over. A new group comes in and will accompany the arts upthe early twentieth century. They are merchants and traderswho became strong during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuriesand now wish to belong to the Kingdom’s governmentand have a building that would represent them.
La Lonja de Mallorca is a fifteenth-century building located inCiutat de Mallorca in the Raval de Mar, an old neighborhoodoutside the walls. The author of the building, Guillem Sagrera,pertains to the generation of artists born in the late fourteenthcentury, who started to work at the end of an epoch and developeda new way of building.
These artists learned all trades related to construction of thefourteenth century, but worked under the new conditions ofthe fifteenth century. They knew the geology, the work and thesize of the stone quarries, their transportation, how to buildwooden formwork for construction of vaults, how to lift these,and many other things.
La Lonja of the College of Merchants will be not merely thenew building for this trade, but a new way of building the cityand perceive the interior space.
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