Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture

Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture is the book series that compiles, volume by volume, the editions of the international congress organized by the Alejandro de la Sota Foundation. Each book is devoted to the generations of Spanish architects born around the 1910s and 1920s — Alejandro de la Sota, Sáenz de Oíza, Coderch, Fisac, Cabrero, Vázquez Molezún or Bonet, among others — authors of the masterworks of Spanish modern architecture. Bilingual Spanish/English editions, each focused on one theme: inhabitance, the design process, in-between spaces or blending with the environment.

Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture 7. In-between Spaces

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Pioneers (7). In-between Spaces

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The 7th Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture International Congress, held in May 2022 under the title “In-between Spaces”, is devoted to the transitional spaces — galleries, courtyards, porches, terraces — that link buildings with the space outside them. In the early twentieth century the avant-garde freed space by breaking down volume into free...

Pioneros de la Arquitectura Moderna Española 6. El proceso del proyecto

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Pioneers (6). The Design Process

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The 6th Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture International Congress, held in May 2021 under the title “The Design Process”, analyses designs by the pioneering generation of architects, from the initial idea to the final solution, reflecting on the value of the process involved in the creation of a work of architecture. “Buildings are not better on...

Pioneros de la Arquitectura Moderna (5)

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Pioneers (5). Projects for Inhabitance

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The 5th Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture Congress — the first international edition —, organized by the Alejandro de la Sota Foundation under the title “Projects for Inhabitance”, investigates landmark works of modern Spanish residential architecture. “Architecture is born when it fulfils the purpose of sheltering and organising the surroundings...

Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture 4. Architecture as Inclusive Work

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Pioneers (4). Architecture as Inclusive Work

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The 4th Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture National Congress, organized by the Alejandro de la Sota Foundation under the title “Architecture as Inclusive Work”, draws on the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk or total work of art: the analysis of projects in which the architect imagined, designed and incorporated not only strictly architectural elements...

Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture 3. Critical Analysis of a Work

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Pioneers (3). Critical Analysis of a Work

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The 3rd Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture National Congress, held in Madrid in May 2016 under the title “Critical Analysis of a Work of Architecture”, delves into emblematic and lesser-known works by the great architects of the modern movement in Spain, taking advantage of the perspective afforded by the passage of time to define the values,...

Pioneros de la Arquitectura Moderna Española (2)

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Pioneers (2). Learning From a Building

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The 2nd Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture National Congress, organized by the Alejandro de la Sota Foundation under the title “Learning from a Building”, studies works of great interest built by the generation of architects born around the 1910s and 1920s, regarded as pioneers of Spanish architecture. The approach focuses on the design and...

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Pioneers (1). Vigencia de su pensamiento y obra

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The 1st Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture National Congress, organized by the Alejandro de la Sota Foundation under the title “The Currency of their Ideas and Work”, is devoted to the generations of Spanish architects born around the 1910s and 1920s. Trained amid the economic hardship and cultural isolation of the post-war period, they assimilated...

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