The Sardinian civil architecture in the second half of the eighteenth century. Historical and constructive analysis of the architecture of Cagliari
Molines Cano, Jose Miguela and López Amores, Antoniob
aDepartment of History, Geography and Art, University Jaume I, Spain; Department of Continuous Medium Mechanics and Theory of Structures, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain bDepartment of History, Geography and Art, University Jaume I, Spain; VALi+d program from the Generalitat Valenciana, co-financed by the European Social Fund.
Abstract:
Cagliari is one of the most important cities in Sardinia. Located to the south of the Sardinian Island, owes its urban morphology and architectural characteristics, in large part, to various historical and social aspects that occurred during the eighteenth century.
One of the main causes that changed the direction of the city, until the agricultural moment, was the development an entrepreneurial society formed by nobles of the Sardinian aristocracy and exponents of the bourgeois class. These events provoked an increase in purchasing power and, in turn, greater investment in the constructive sector, mainly focusing on the construction or refurbishment of houses of the Sardinian nobility.
The new architectures imitated late Baroque languages of the Piedmontese school introduced by the military engineers of Savoy. An architecture that was a reflection of a long evolutionary process, that included great innovations.
Consequently, this article intends to analyze the historical and social causes that provoked a radical turn of the Sardinian society in the eighteenth century, specifically in the city of Cagliari; As well as the impact it had on the architecture that developed in the second half of this century and it is a sign of identity today of the city.
Keywords: Sardinian architecture, Cagliari, private civil architecture, late Baroque language, heritage.