About the title of this article:
This article should change its title to "Tile vault" as it is the name that best describes this construction technique. The names that traditionally have had this technique in several languages are limited to describing the thinness, the general appearance or the materials that characterize these type of vaults, without indicating any geographical reference. For example, in Spanish it is called "bóveda tabicada" (partition vault), in French "voûte plate" (flat vault), in Italian "volta a foglio" (sheet vault), in English "tile vault" and in Catalan "volta de maó de pla" (flat brick vault). It should not be forgotten that, according to the most recent studies, (principally of M. Fortea Luna and P. Araguas) this technique does not arise in Catalonia, but in the Islamic world, and that it is a technique that is traditionally used in many more places besides Catalonia. In fact, tile vault researcher such as John Oschendorf (The Art of Structural Tile) claims that the name "catalan vaults" is recent and politically charged, and Dietrich Neumann (The Guastavino system in context) claims that is preferable to describe this technique as "tile vaults".
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