
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
An investigation of the influences and evolution of modern Spain's underappreciated, but foundational, architecture. Spain's remarkable twentieth-century architecture evolved against a turbulent background of revolution, civil war, dictatorship, and transition to democracy. Architecture played a key role in Spain's struggle out of poverty and isolation, and its search for identity in the modern world. This book examines Spanish architecture from the roots of Modernism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present, analyzing significant figures and their works in relation to their political, social, and cultural contexts, as well as their contributions to architecture as a whole. From the austere, local Modernism of the 1920s, the influence of international trends in the '30s, the renewed, "Organicist" Modernism of the '50s and '60s, to the flourishing public architecture of the late twentieth century and beyond, Spain provides a penetrating account of the country's rich and varied built environment.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Note on Translations
- one: A Short History, 1750β1925
- two: The First Modernists, 1910β25
- three: The Generation of 1925 in Madrid, 1925β36
- four: The Provinces and Barcelona: Stylists versus Revolutionaries, 1929β39
- five: Modernism Expunged: The Civil War and Its Aftermath, 1936β50
- six: The Return to Modernism, 1949β60
- seven: The Organicist Eden, 1960β75
- eight: Building Democracy, 1975β92
- nine: Over the Top, 1992β2015
- Epilogue
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index