Tuesday, March 22, 2011

When Will The Body Style Change

Pablo Serrano 549 FOREIGN POLICY OF SPAIN Spanish architecture


Winds modern English architecture
A meticulously documented volume of buildings and public facilities between 1925 and 1965
face of speculative architecture in recent decades, so eager to find special effects, without going too far is an architecture based on rationality, on the precise use of the material and ethical quality: a role to play social. These values \u200b\u200bcame from the hand of the Modern Movement in Spain lasting from 1925 to 1965. Then abandoned in the eighties with the cult of postmodernism and now receives a certain return, perhaps by dint of the crisis. There are a few superb examples scattered throughout the English geography. Docomomo

Foundation, dedicated to documenting, caring and spreading this priceless heritage, has just published the first volume of equipment
public places and new programs,
1925-1965. Collect with considerable detail, with his record, plans, photographs and a brief description, 300 works arranged by regions of educational buildings, health, religious and administrative. The second volume will of trade, tourism, leisure, sports and transportation.
"It takes a look back to figure out what we are, because each style is a reflection of the concerns and tastes of a certain age," says Celestino Garcia Brana, president of Foundation. "For example, the Alhambra was a den of thieves quarry until the Romantics were set on it because connected with that interest they had for exotic cults."
modern buildings say goodbye to previous styles based on historical languages: romanticism, baroque and neoclassical ... burst with a functional language, technical and expressive of new materials, concrete, iron and glass. One example is the Center for Geological Research in Madrid, Miguel Fisac. "All the expressiveness of the building focuses on the use of concrete," Garcia Braña appreciated. The same architect was pulled down not many years ago, in 1999, The Pagoda, which compared the architects as "the burning of a" watched "." Today would have been shot down? "I believe not," said the president of the Foundation that acts as a "watchdog" of these buildings. "Heritage is to create it day by day and government and society have to be aware of it. "
religious spaces As religious spaces, the air renewal that came with Vatican II fit well with this new vision of architecture. In the midst of debate about the architecture of worship, the fifties, rampant construction of churches. One of the most original image and by the use of concrete and glass surfaces is the parish church of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1965), in Madrid, Felix Candela, who begins built in Spain after a long exile in Mexico. Also integrated into this movement, Our Lady of Aranzazu (1955), in Oñate, Guipuzcoa Sáenz de Oíza and Luis Laorga or Fuencisla Church (1965), in Madrid, José María García de Paredes. This new architecture also entered fully into the schools whose organization has changed radically. Light is vital, the classroom should be a uniformly illuminated area, but the sun's rays can not bother, they have to be indirect, so the north direction is essential.
The College of The Teresianas (1969), in Cordoba, Rafael de la Hoz, the Brazil House College (1962), Alfonso D `Escragnolle and Fernando Moreno, Madrid, or that of Our Lady of Santa Maria ( 1962), Fernández Alba, also in Madrid, with the classrooms repeated willing to seek the sun are two good examples of that function is not only a matter of style, but organized around the building. Along with functionality, the austerity of media was one of the highest values \u200b\u200bof modernism and according to Garcia regains Braña rationale: "I mean, more humility"



Brazil
House (now College Casa do Brasil), 1959-1962, Alfonso d'Escragnolle Madrid (project) and Fernando Moreno Barberá (address book) © Luis Argüelles

Faculty of Geology and Biology, 1965-1969, Oviedo. Ignacio Álvarez Castelao. © Luis Argüelles

Laorga, Jorge Oteiza and Eduardo Chillida (sculptural elements), Lucio Muñoz, Carlos Pascual de Lara, Nestor Javier Basterrechea and Eulate (paintings) © Jesús Martín Ruiz
College of the Teresians ( College currently Bética Mudarra), 1959-1969, Cordoba Rafael de La-Hoz Arderius © José Hevia

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