Resumen:
This article will study the research work done on the rural architecture by Erwin Heilbronner during his stay in Ibiza. After his contact with the Central European circles of art and architecture, the German architect and painter found in Ibiza something more than a refuge. Once arrived and installed, Heilbronner started to visit the rural areas of the Balearic Islands, always carrying his camera and notebook, carrying out an exhaustive analysis of the peasant houses scattered throughout the territory. His graphic, photographic (partly unpublished) and written discourse about the island's rural architecture, can be considered one of the first typological studies on this particular Mediterranean architecture in modern terms. Based on the reference to some of those theories on typology written during the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century - Quincy, Argan, Rossi, Moneo, Forty, ... -, this article seeks to assess the value of Heilbronner's contribution between 1935 and 1936. No cabe duda, de quela empresa teórica se encuentra en sus contribuidores, quienes permiten el debate, el intercambio y la evolución de los postulados. Los tiempos han cambiado. Lo mismo que a finales del s. XIX se intuía el cambio con la aparición de la ¿maquina¿, hemos observado desde el s. XX la parición de lo ¿digital¿. En un tiempo principalmente digital parece lógico preguntarse si el debate teórico se reducirá al mundo académico o si se están rebasando esas barreras. Si el campo demanda,