José Calvo-López

Ph. D. in Architecture, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2000. Profesor Titular de Universidad, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, 2003. Undergraduate courses in Descriptive Geometry (2000-2008). Graduate courses in "Arches and vaults in ashlar" (2003-2008) and "History of Spatial Representation" (2004-2008) at the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, as a part of a Ph. D. programme on Architecture and Town Planning. Area Director of the Master's Course on Heritage Conservation, Murcia, 2003-2004. Director of the International Course on "Restoration of Defence Systems on the Mediterranean Coast: Project, Construction, Use", Cartagena, 2006. Lecturer at the Master's Degree on Architectural Conservation at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2007. Dean of the School of Architecture and Building Engineering of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, 2008 to the present. Director of the Master's Degree on Built Heritage at the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, starting on the academic year 2010-2011. Main researcher of the Research Group on Architecture and Town Planning of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, 2005 to the present.

Associate member of the research project "Construcción en piedra de cantería en el ámbito hispánico: fuentes documentales y patrimonio construido", led by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain. Member of the Scientific Commitee of the Sixth Spanish Congress on Construction History, to be held in Valencia in October 2009.

Most relevant publications:

José Calvo, 'Cerramientos y trazas de montea' de Ginés Martínez de Aranda, Ph. dissertation, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 1999, available through ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 2003.

José Calvo and Enrique Rabasa, "La coupe des pierres dans l'Espagne du XVIéme siécle: le manuscrit de Ginés Martínez de Aranda", in Massimo Corradi, Antonio Becchi, Federico Foce, y Orieta Pedemonte, eds., Towards a History of Construction, Berlín-Basilea-Boston, Birkhauser, 2002, pp. 529-549.

José Calvo, "Orthographic projection and true size in Spanish stonecutting manuscripts", in Proceedings of the First International Congress on Construction History, Madrid, Instituto Juan de Herrera, 2003, pp. 461-471.

José Calvo, Miguel Ángel Alonso, Enrique Rabasa and Ana López Mozo, Cantería renacentista en la catedral de Murcia, Murcia, Colegio de Arquitectos, 2005

José Calvo, "Jacopo Torni l'indaco vecchio and the emergence of Spanish classical stereotomy", in Teoria e Pratica del costruire: saperi, strumenti, modeli, 2005, pp. 505-516

José Calvo, "Sixteenth-Century Spanish Cranes and Lázaro de Velasco’s translation of Vitruvius", in Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Construction History, Cambridge, Construction History Society, 2006, vol. I, pp. 493-507.
José Calvo, "La historia de la representación del espacio como materia de posgrado", in XII Congres oInternacional de Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica, Madrid, 2008, pp. 133-141.

José Calvo, "El manuscrito 'Cerramientos y trazas de montea' de Ginés Martínez de Aranda", Archivo Español de Arte, LXXXII, 325, Jan-March 2009, pp. 1-18.

Enrique Rabasa y José Calvo, "Gothic and Renaissance design strategies in stonecutting". Preliminary publication in Preprint. Max-Planck-Institute fur Wissenschaftgestchichte, nº 338, 2007, v. 2, pp. 47-65; publication in Civil and naval architecture. A cross-disciplinary comparison, Brill, Leiden, in press, scheduled for April 2009.

José Calvo, "La literatura de la cantería", in El arte de la piedra, Madrid, Universidad San Pablo - CEU, in press, scheduled for 2009.

Miguel Ángel Alonso, Ana López Mozo, José Carlos Palacios, Enrique Rabasa, José Calvo y Alberto Sanjurjo, "Functionalism and caprice in stonecutting. The case of the Nativity Chapel in Burgos Cathedral", in Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Construction History, in press, scheduled for May 2009.