Spain : Modern Architectures in History.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohn, David.

Series:

Modern Architectures in History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, Limited, 2025.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Note on Translations

One: A Short History, 1750-1925

Two: The First Modernists, 1910-25

Three: The Generation of 1925 in Madrid, 1925-36

Four: The Provinces and Barcelona: Stylists versus Revolutionaries, 1929-39

Five: Modernism Expunged: The Civil War and Its Aftermath, 1936-50

Six: The Return to Modernism, 1949-60

Seven: The Organicist Eden, 1960-75

Eight: Building Democracy, 1975-92

Nine: Over the Top, 1992-2015

Epilogue

References

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Photo Acknowledgements

Index.

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ISBN:

9781789145823

1789145821

OCLC:

1492912512