Spain: Modern Architectures in History

Spain's twentieth-century architecture evolved against a turbulent background, playing a key role in its struggle out of poverty and isolation and its search for identity in the modern world. This new account examines Spanish architecture from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present, analysing significant figures and their works in relation to their political, social, and cultural contexts.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books

Spain's remarkable twentieth-century architecture emerged against a backdrop of revolution, civil war, dictatorship, and transition to democracy, playing a crucial role in the country's struggle out of poverty and isolation and its search for identity in the modern world. This new account delves into Spanish architecture from its roots in modernism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present, examining significant figures and their works in their political, social, and cultural contexts. From Madrid's early, austere local modernism and Barcelona's internationally influenced works to the 'Organicist modernism of the 1960s and the flourishing public architecture of the late twentieth century and beyond, this book offers a comprehensive and penetrating exploration of the country's rich and varied built environment.

Dimension: 220 x 171 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789145816