The Establishment and Spread of the Architectural Vocabulary in Renaissance Spain

The Modern Ages treatises are one of the most relevant sources for the knowledge of the architectural techniques, models and thoughts that have governed the European Architecture between XVIth and XVIIIth centuries. One of the main problems when researches have to interpret the contents of these treatises is the right comprehension of the concepts that their authors tried to pass on, modified by the time. This paper presents a new methodology for terminological and conceptual research that allows a deeper and systematic understanding of the real meaning of the terms used in these texts and determines its establishment, evolution and spread of some ideas that conditioned the European art of building in those centuries.