Agustín Castellanos Miguélez
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Calle Demetrio Monteserín 10 – 24009 León
ACTIVITY
Agustín Castellanos has since 1999 been devoted to researching, recovering and disseminating the traditional craft techniques of Mudéjar carpentry, roof trusses, timber floor structures, wooden staircases and traditional and styled furniture, mainly through the Spanish Structural Carpentry Summer Courses and the Specialist and Annual Courses… at the León City Council Crafts Centre.
He is responsible chiefly for drawing up projects which are then executed in the workshop as practical exercises to help students understand the construction processes for various types of roof structure. These exercises have allowed him to explore such structures, from simple hip roofs with a ridge and rafters or with collar beams to more complex octagonal ones with twin moamar rafters at the hips, decorated with Mudéjar strapwork of interlaced laths and crossbars or with mixed techniques, as well as 16-sided five-section roof structures decorated with coffers, or even, as built in the summer of 2016, four segments of a rounded roof and ceiling framework webbed with ten-point stars.
TRAINING
The work he does and the practical exercises he sets in his courses follow the guidelines of old carpentry treatises, as well as the observations of Professor Enrique Nuere and other modern scholars.
TEACHING
As well as courses given at the Crafts Centre where he has taught since 1989, he has on many occasions delivered talks and practical courses in institutions such as the Santa Teresa Foundation in Ávila, the Cathedral de Santa María Foundation in Vitoria, the Escuela… de Artes y Oficios Foundation in Bogotá (Colombia), the Complutense University in Alcalá de Henares, the University of Málaga, the Cáceres Official Association of Technical Architects and Building Engineers, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Regional Crafts Centre in Castilla y León (CEARCAL) or the Government of Castilla y León.
SELECTED WORK
– Porch and roof structure of the square wing of the Chapel of Vera Cruz in Manzanal de los Infantes (Zamora province), 2000
– Collar-beam roof with interlaced Mudéjar planks and trim for the Romanesque church of Tobera (Álava), 2001
– Collar-beam roof with interlaced Mudéjar planks… and trim for a private house, León, 2002
– Canopy structure decorated with ten-point stars in Mansilla de las Mulas (León province), 2003
– Hip-roof structure with ornamental crossbars and ten-point stars for the tower of the old church of Quintanilla de Rueda (León province), 2004
– Hip-roof structure with ornamental crossbars and eight-point stars, Mollina (Málaga province), 2004
– Roof structure in the western Mudéjar style with twin hip rafters, ornamental crossbars and ten-point stars, modelled on the stepped roof of the former Palace of Enrique II in León, 2005
– Roof structure in the western style with twin hip rafters, ornamental laths and eight-point stars, León, 2006
– 16-sided grid roof structure with five segments, modelled on the roof framework of the presbytery of the church of Otero de Sanabria (Zamora province), León, 2007
– Two-leaf monumental door in the eastern style with ornamental laths and eight-point stars, León, 2007
– Roof structure in the western style with twin hip rafters, ornamental crossbars and eight-point stars, Almagro, 2007
– Wooden ceiling decorated with ten-point stars, León, 2008
– Octagonal collar-beam roof structure with twin hip rafters, ornamental crossbars and eight-point stars, Málaga, 2008
– Hip-truss roof for the community gardens of La Candamia, León, 2008
– Two-flight staircase with a 90º turn with winder steps on a 1:2 scale, León, 2009
– Roof structure in the western style with twin hip rafters, ornamental crossbars and eight-point stars, modelled on the roof framework of the 15th-century Church of San Francisco el Grande in Villafranca del Bierzo, for the hall of the Palace of Canedo in El Bierzo (León province), 2009-10
– Collar-beam roof structure with ornamental crossbars and eight-point stars, Madrid, 2009
– Two-flight staircase with a 90º turn and winder steps on a 1:2 scale, Valladolid, 2009.
– Building of various types of wooden truss on a 1:3 scale, León, 2009
– Two-flight staircase with a 180º turn of winder steps, León, 2010
– Design and building of various types of wooden truss according to the spans to be roofed on a 1:3 scale, Valladolid, 2010
– Wooden truss framework for a gabled roof, León, 2010
– Staircase with winder steps on a turn of 180º at the start and 90º at the end in León, 2011
– Roof structure for the fountain of Manzanal de los Infantes (Zamora province), 2011
– Octagonal hip roof with ornamental crossbars and eight-point stars and muqarnas, after the models of Diego López de Arenas, León, 2011
– Stayed collar-beam roof with twin hip rafters, Valladolid, 2011
– Two ornamental wooden ceilings with crosswise beams, León, 2011, and Valladolid, 2012
– Staircase with a 90º rightward turn of winder steps, León, 2012
– Octagonal roof framework with twin hip rafters, ornamental crossbars and eight-point stars, after the models of Diego López de Arenas, León, 2012
– Collar-beam roof structure in the western style with ornamental crossbars and eight-point stars for the church of Robledo de Losada (León province), 2014
– Design and building of a wall plate plus four of the twelve segments of a rounded roof and ceiling framework webbed with ten-point stars, León, 2016
