Intervention in churches damaged by earthquake in colonial guatemalan villages of Indians

Abstract

This paper highlights some proposals that at that time the builders of the province of Guatemala formulated to extend the life of the temples of Indians villages damaged by earthquake in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The question raised of how they were operated temples damaged by earthquake in Cologne?, was answered using the historical method applied to architecture, it allowed through the study of ancient documents information that would explain the ways proposed to recover these spaces. Interventions essentially revolve around two major decisions, demolition and subsequent reconstruction or reinforcement, and sometimes both, so that the buildings could be used again.