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 construction process: the chain of decisions and creative strategies that produced responses of great value, since the process holds the deep keys to the work and the genuine way in which its author understands, thinks and makes architecture.
Each paper develops a critical analysis of a single work in search of the values and criteria that remain current and from which we can still learn today: the Convent of El Rollo by Fernández-Alba in Salamanca, the vault of the Basilica of Aránzazu, Our Lady of the Coronation in Vitoria, the CLESA factory, the Church of the Resurrection by Corrales in La Coruña, the Palace of Agriculture by Cabrero and the service station on Doctor Esquerdo, among others, with articles on the debates by Juan Mera and Blanca Lleó.
This bilingual publication compiles the papers selected for the congress along with the articles on the debates and the list of contributions published in the digital proceedings.
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