La Carpintería de Armar Española

Madrid: Editorial Munilla-Lería, 2000. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Octavo, 383 pp: illustrations (color, b&w); 26 cm. Near Fine; imperceptible rubbing to top edge and spine; pages crisp and clean, binding tight. Paperback. ISBN: 9788489150379, 8489150370

Uncommon. In Spanish. A lucid doorway into the geometric and constructive imagination behind traditional Spanish timber framing. The work distills the craft of carpintería de armar—the sophisticated roof- and ceiling-building tradition that flourished from the Middle Ages through the Baroque—by tracing its mathematical underpinnings, its guild methods, and the richly varied typologies of armaduras, artesonados, and ruedas. Nuere draws heavily on the treatises of Diego López de Arenas and Fray Andrés de San Miguel, showing how their proportional rules and tracing-board diagrams governed actual practice. The book’s enduring significance lies in how it reconnects modern architects, restorers, and historians with a procedural knowledge long embedded in master carpenters’ workshops, revealing a structural art where joinery, geometry, and ornament merge into a single constructive language.