La construcción con ladrillo asentado en barro. El caso de la ciudad de Rosario

Abstract

By studying the cement factory of Tomas Fuhr in Remanso Valerio (1873-1878) we attribute their failure to the associated interests on imported cement. The repeated observation of many demolitions carried out in recent years in central Rosario (and other locations as Venado Tuerto and Lujan) have led us to conclude that the failure of this and other attempts such as the Argentina Primera Bialet Massé it was due not only to the competence of the European cement but also to the lack of a concrete construction practice with mortars or cementitious mixtures out of public and religious work. The experience of the city of Rosario which grew almost after Caseros and has not left us samples of adobe construction has led us to conclude that the mud mortar to lay burnt brick was widely used in the late nineteenth century and even early twentieth, subsisting, at least in making walls, non-bearing walls and mud walls and suburban construction until the second or third decade of it, to the point of being considered in the first building regulations since 1890.