José entró a la cocina con el ejemplar de ABC debajo del brazo. Se sentó en su butaca preferida, junto a la ventana mientras Trini le ponía un café. En tazón grande, con la leche muy caliente, como lo tomaba desde que era un crío. Abrió el periódico. Le encantaba el olor de la tinta y, sobre todo, que el […]
The ICO Museum of Madrid closed a few days ago a magnificent exhibition that, for some weeks, allowed to bring over the public the figures of Carlos Arniches and Martín Domínguez, two architects who were defining his own work not as racionalist, but as reasonably.1 The reasonable architects did not seem to have content too much in the Spain later to the […]
La capitalidad de la nación fue un asunto fundamental para el régimen de Franco. La duración sostenida del frente de Madrid desde los últimos días del año 1936 hasta el final de la guerra había provocado considerables daños materiales, especialmente en la zona oeste de la capital —Ciudad Universitaria, barrio de Moncloa, Gran Vía— cuya reparación se convirtió en asunto […]
In 1959 the concept of political correction still was for be inventing, so still it was possible that a newspaper of national issue, in this Blanco y Negro -ABC’s cultural supplement- an article was publishing with round this one headline.1 The article was fulfilling all the premises to call the attention: polemic holder, graphical showy and, composition especially, signatory of […]
The coherence in the architectural language, all we agree, it is one of the signs of identity that they allow us to recognize this concept so diffuse that we know as “goog architecture”. Though, speaking about diffuse terms, what is it of the “oherence in the language”? My language is coherent – though my ideas not always it are – […]
The syndrome of “due obedience”. In these times convulsed with devastating laws and slaves disguised of false autonomous, allow to this minuscule blog to relax the environment trying to answer one of the big questions of the humanity: why is bad architecture bad? He says a famous corollary, attributed I believe all the teachers of the school of architecture, which […]
Years ago I had the opportunity to visit the enclosure of what had been the universal exhibition of Seville of that glorious 1992 that seemed that it was going to put Spain in the place that was deserved (probably, I dress the seen, yes that did it). That visit was organized by a teacher of the School of Architecture of […]
Paralyzation and to re-arise from the educational space in the second half of the 20th century The economic consequences of the war, joined the isolation suffered by the country in the years immediately later to this one it was translated, likewise, in the almost absolute paralyzation of the constructive activity in the educational area, beyond some school buildings included in […]
The architectural model of the Free Institution of Education Previously we have mentioned the influence of the Catholic Church in the educational system. This relation between Church and Education is not properly of influence, but of authentic monopoly in these years. In 1875, one circular letter of the secretary of Promotion he was warning the rectors of university of the need of […]
The evolution of the educational spaces in Spain The Spanish case is more complicated. The evolution, both social and cultural, of the country it takes a pace different from that of the countries of our environment and few imported initiatives will have to be adapted to our own particular conditions. It splits of an evident social and economic disadvantage in […]
The impact of the social sciences in the educational spaces after the Second World war The efforts of reconstruction of the years later to the Second World war, they had one of his big challenges in the endowment of social and community services of the countries most affected by the conflict. In certain way, the need to begin of zero […]
New educational spaces to the heat of the modern movement and the new pedagogic expositions The irruption of the modern movement in the architectural European panorama produced the first examples of school typology really evolved. The certain thing is that the building of social court was in few occasions a central topic of the modern, great movement more centred on […]
The higienismo and the first changes in the educational spaces We might think that this rather alternative conception of the education and the spaces where it develops it is a relatively modern idea. Though it is true that the most typical examples begin to turn out to be entered well the 20th century, the worry as the conditions in which […]
Since architects we like to think that the architecture that we generate has a positive incident in the life of the people. Moved to the educational architecture, we would like to believe that a good school (from an architectural point of view) propitiates a better education. That a well raised space, it facilitates and activates the educational labor in the […]