Аннотация: Rural Utopia and Water Urbanism. The Modern Village in Franco's Spain

Post-Civil War Spain used the countryside as locus and symbol for the reconstruction and modernisation of the state. The Modern Village in Franco's Spain studies the reconstruction of the towns devastated between 1936 and 1939. It analyses the ideological, political, and urbanistic principles of Franco's hydro-social programme of modernisation of the countryside through the creation of man-made landscapes (Kulturlandschaften) of dams, irrigation canals, electric power plants, and new settlements - a genuine experiment in water urbanism.
The consequent strategy of interior colonisation entailed the construction of 300 new villages or pueblos, each designed as a 'rural utopia' centred on a plaza mayor, which embodied, between tradition and modernity, the political ideal of civil life under the national-catholic regime. In the 1950s?-?1960s, a new generation of architects, including Jose Luis Fernandez del Amo, Alejandro de la Sota, and Antonio Fernandez Alba, reimagined the pueblos as platforms of urban and architectonic experimentation in their search for an abstracted rural vernacular and an organic urban form merging with the landscape.

Автор/составитель	Lejeune Jean-Francois
Серия	Art Architecture
Год выпуска	2022
ISBN	9783869225050
Производитель	DOM publishers
Издательство	DOM publishers
Количество томов	1
Количество страниц	407
Переплет	Мягкая обложка
Размеры	230x210x20 мм
Цвет	Зелёный
Тип бумаги	мелованная
Вес	1188
Язык	английский