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Spanish Spaces

The short century that elapsed from the early rationalist works in 1927 to the magical year of 1992 is recounted here through a series of articles, first published in Spain or beyond, which either explained the country to foreign public opinion or tried to understand it from within. The first part, ‘Time of Penumbra,’ begins with an overview and a sketch of the modern dawn under the Monarchy and the Republic, to in detail cover the Franco period and its most remarkable episodes, and concludes with an evocation of the end of the regime that appeared in the German press, along with a discourse paying tribute to the architects whom the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship sent into exile. The second part, ‘The Years of Splendor,’ offers a portrait of the architecture boom of the 1980s, a walk through some of the works it produced, and a look into the transformation of the Barcelona that hosted the Olympics and the Seville that presented the Expo, scenes of a sweet moment that would fade out in the next years, wrapping up a brief and turbulent century.

Collection ‘Balances’, 2023
Language: Spanish
Soft cover
128 pages