Alejandro de la Sota   Spain   The efforts exerted by the architects of Spain’s Second Republic in favor of modernity were put aside at the end of the Civil War. Centralized, grandiose and free, the architecture of the forties strove to retrieve the signs of a glorious past from t

On view through 12 May at Museo ICO in Madrid is ‘Colonization Towns: Glances at an Invented Landscape,’ curated by Ana Amado and Andrés Patiño. The exhibition tells of the transformation process that rural Spain underwent between 1939 and 1971 thank

The villages Sota built for the National Colonization Institute evolve from a mimesis of the vernacular at Gimenells, in Lérida, to the organicist formalism of Valuengo and Entremos, both in Badajoz... [+]

Eduardo Delgado Orusco   Fondos del archivo fotográfico del Instituto Nacional de Colonización, 1939-1973

Diego Peris Sánchez José Rivero Serrano   Análisis y documentos

Andrés Cánovas   Madrid  2013  
Ministerio de Fomento   - 216 Pages