Diseño editorial y fotografía para un libro sobre los púlpitos de las iglesias del Centro Histórico de Cuenca

Abstract

The city of Cuenca - Ecuador is known for its religious architecture and also for the greatest sacred art works produced by the hands of skilled craftsmen. The beauty of these works has caught the attention of locals and abroad when they come to research them. For this and another reason, this research has focused on one of the most important element of Catholic Eucharistic celebrations that occurred in colonial times. This is named like the pulpit. This element which unfortunately has been neglected by the lack of knowledge of its history, function and symbolic undertones; as the fact that it was considered a sacred place and only the priests could go up to it at the time of the homily. In this project, you can find a lot of information about the pulpits that are located in the historic down¬town of Cuenca, and also the steps followed for the creation of a book titled Pulpitum in which all of this information is compiled with the photography that was captured to get part of this project, in a dynamic, aesthetic and functional way, characteristics of a design process.