¿Invariantes arquitectónicos de ultramar? Problematicidad del “barroco” de la “trans-España”

Abstract

In 1947, Fernando Chueca Goitia published Invariantes castizos de la arquitectura española, where he first stood up for the existence of overarching traits, which he chose to call “invariants” in the mathematical sense, contributing to shape Spanish architecture throughout its long history, irrespective of stylistic transformations. According to Chueca, this archaizing strain, which was partly of near-eastern origin, was also a deciding factor in the development of colonial Spanish-American architecture, and particularly so during the 17th and 18th centuries. Juan de la Encina devoted a series of seminars to Chueca’s ideas in 1960. Six years later, encouraged by the foothold his ideas had gained in Mexico and Argentina, Chueca made known his own Invariantes en la arquitectura hispanoamericana.