ARQUITECTURA ESPAÑOLA DE LA SEGUNDA REPÚBLICA.
Barcelona: Tusquets Editor (Cuadernos Infimos, 5), 1970. Paperback. 116p., illus., bibl., indices, wrps. Very Good. Item #191990
The Second Republic (1931-1939) was the political incarnation of a certain Spanish progressive mentality. But it was also a catalyst for progressivism in all activities in the country. In the case of architecture, the phenomenon is evident. Although the first symptoms of incorporation into the Modern Movement appeared in Spain in 1927, cultural cohesion was not achieved until the advent of the Republic which, in a certain way, made it official, especially in Catalonia, where the autonomous government protected the action of the GATCPAC. But, in addition, the environment in favor of an avant-garde attitude drags many architects who had remained eclectic in the previous political situation. When the Republic ended, in 1939, the rationalist architects abandoned the battle: some on their way to exile, others returning to the architecture that had enthroned the Dictatorship. Also, then, in this specific field of architecture, the Second Republic was an obvious cultural parenthesis. It is this parenthesis that we try to summarize and assess in this book.
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