Frank Gehry Bilbao Rafael Moneo Kursaal Jean Nouvel Agbar Tower Richard Meier MACBA Modernism in Spain Lecture 14 ARCH 350 Spring 2015 Herzog de Meuron Caixa Forum Enric Miralles Igualada Cemetery 1931 Fall of Monarchy 1936 Civil War 1939 End of Civil War 1945 End of WWII 1952 Entry into UNESCO 1975 End of Franco Regime 1 World Expo 1928 in Barcelona 2 GATCPAC and Paris Exhibition 1937 Josep Llu s Sert et al 3 Post civil war reconstruction in Madrid Alejandro de la Sota 4 Grup R in Barcelona 1951 1961 Josep Antoni Coderch Joseph Maria Sostres Oriol Bohigas et al 1986 Spain joins the E U 5 Large Scale Public Works Ricardo Bofill Rafael Moneo 1992 Olympic Games Globalization The Olymbics was orchestrated by Bohigas 1 World Expo 1928 Scenes from 1929 World Expo in Barcelona 3 25 2015 1 2 GATCPAC and Paris Exhibition in 1937 Josep Llu s Sert a Catalan architect b 1902 d 1983 worked for Le Corbusier formed GATEPAC Grupo de Artistas y T cnicos Espa oles para el Progreso de l Arquitectura Contempor nea as a branch of CIAM in 1930 introduced rationalism and functionalism in Spain went into exile in the US after the civil war Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 1953 to 1969 Josep Lluis Sert Casa Bloc 1932 1936 Josep Lluis Sert and Luis Lacasa The Spanish pavilion at Paris Expo 1937 3 25 2015 2 The post civil war reconstruction of the village Brunete https youtu be 82YgCm8PbtM Architecture under General Franco Ministerio del Aire Moncloa Madrid 1943 1958 Laboral Universidad Gijon Spain 1946 1956 3 Post civil war reconstruction in Madrid Alejandro de la Sota 1913 1996 born in Galicia northwestern province in Spain and studied in Madrid De la Sota Maravillas College Gymnasium Madrid 1961 3 25 2015 3 Maravillas College Gymnasium was the first steel framed building in Madrid Of the Maravillas Gymnasium de la Sota said there was little time to worry about a specific Architecture which is why the building does not have any Architecture at all or perhaps that is an Architecture in itself This building arose almost out of the air Our preoccupation with the problems of the urban context the difficult site and the budget left no leeway for making decisions about the Architecture which is perhaps why it has no Architecture at all I don t know why I made it as I did but what I do know is that I am not displeased with the outcome I believe that one way of making Architecture is not to make it and that by not making Architecture we do it a greater service than those who continually apply their knowledge to it A problem was solved then and the solution still works today and it seems to me that nobody misses the Architecture that is not there From Alexandro de la Sota The architecture of Imperfection 3 25 2015 4 4 Grup R in Barcelona 1951 1961 Grup R was formed in Barcelona in 1951 The letter R stands for cultural and architectural Renovation and Recuperation Its members included Josep Antoni Coderch Oriol Bohigas Josep M Martorell and Joseph M Sostres among many others They were brought together by a common interest in promoting international culture through the modern movement and by their rejection of the fascist academic monumental architecture that prevailed in the Franco era http www macba cat uploads 20140204 ENG NdP Grup R pdf Josep M Sostres Apartment in Torredembarra Jos Antonio Coderch 1913 1984 A Catalan architect became a member of CIAM in 1959 and of Team X in 1960 No I do not think that we need geniuses to day Nor do I believe that we need High Priests of Architecture or great doctrinarians Something of a living tradition is available to us and many old moral doctrines are still related to our profession as architects and to ourselves What we need above all is good schools and good teachers We need thousands and thousands of architects who will think less of Architecture with a capital A of money and the town of the year 2000 A D and more of their profession as architects They should work with a cord tied to one of their legs so that they cannot wonder too far from the soil in which they have their roots and from the men they know best and work with dedications goodwill and honesty From Domus November 1961 La Casa Ugalde Caldes d Estrac 1951 Arxiu Coderch copyright All rights reserved http www epdlp com edificio php id 179 3 25 2015 5 Arxiu Coderch copyright All rights reserved http www epdlp com edificio php id 179 Arxiu Coderch copyright All rights reserved http www epdlp com edificio php id 179 3 25 2015 6 3 25 2015 N La Marian Apartment Building Barcelona Spain 1951 1955 Domus 306 1955 7 5 Large Scale Public Works Ricardo Bofill 1939 Educated at the French Institute in Barcelona Around 1963 he formed a group called the Taller de Architectura a multi disciplinary group involved in proposals and solutions for physical design problems within a broad artistic literary musical philosophical and mathematical fields The Taller explores the relationship between the social reality and urban and architectural forms The goal is to develop a new typology of urban tissue based on the ambience of the Medieval Renaissance Baroque examples of street square and open space City in the space Madrid 1970 His housing development in Noisy le Grand 1983 a suburb of Paris is featured in the film Brasil by Terry Gilliam Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura Headquarters Barcelona 1975 3 25 2015 8 3 25 2015 Rafael Moneo born in Navarra Spain in 1937 studied in Madrid worked for the Danish architect J rn Utzon spent two years 1963 1965 at the Academy of Spain in Rome chaired the architecture department of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 1984 to 1990 a recipient of the Pritzker Prize in 1996 Rafael Moneo Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de M rida M rida Spain 1979 1986 9 3 25 2015 10 3 25 2015 11 Photo Ximo Michavila 3 25 2015 I don t believe that the walls of this museum would be placed at the same interval with the same distance between them had we chosen to execute them in concrete as opposed to brick In this sense distance or if you prefer the sensation of closeness depends on material There are other architectural aspects of the brick as well At first glance it may seem that the fabric evident in the walls of the museum is extremely literal One thinks that I am referring to the Roman walls on whose foundations we have built by way of a process that is unequivocal that offers only a literal reproduction of Roman precedent I would say that this is not the case at all It is in