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Further Studies in the History of Construction: the Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the Construction History Society
This book is the third in the series of volumes which provide the papers of the conferences held at Queens' College, Cambridge by the Construction History Society. Papers cover different aspects of the history of construction, including studies of different building materials, building firms, the development and education of building professionals, the construction of buildings and infrastructure, methods and techniques of construction, and other subjects related to the history and development of buildings.
Spain
An investigation of the influences and evolution of modern Spain’s underappreciated, but foundational, architecture. Spain’s remarkable twentieth-century architecture evolved against a turbulent background of revolution, civil war, dictatorship, and transition to democracy. Architecture played a key role in Spain’s struggle out of poverty and isolation, and its search for identity in the modern world. This book examines Spanish architecture from the roots of Modernism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present, analyzing significant figures and their works in relation to their political, social, and cultural contexts, as well as their contributions to architecture as a whole. From the austere, local Modernism of the 1920s, the influence of international trends in the ’30s, the renewed, “Organicist” Modernism of the ’50s and ’60s, to the flourishing public architecture of the late twentieth century and beyond, Spain provides a penetrating account of the country’s rich and varied built environment.
1994
Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
From Franco to Freedom
This book brings together recent research by a group of specialists in history and sociology to provide a new reading of the late Franco dictatorship, especially in relation to its political culture. The authors focus on the election of local, trade union and national representatives, the work of the first Spanish sociologists, the struggle over administrative reform, the role of the media and the intellectuals, as well as the evolution of the dictatorships political class and its response to the regimes decline. Not only are the politics of the late dictatorship scrutinised, but also the mechanisms that were deployed to control the fast-changing society of the 1960s and 1970s. In examining ...
The Revolting Masses
José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist best known for The Revolt of the Masses, first translated into English in 1932. In it, Ortega critiques a populist deformation of democracy by the rise of a “mass mentality” characterized by selfishness, a lack of curiosity, and a general indifference to the opinions and attitudes of others. However, as Brendon Westler makes clear, we need to look beyond Ortega’s arguments about populism and democracy in his most famous work to recover the philosopher’s expansive political outlook and to identify his valuable contributions to the history and advancement of liberalism. Westler’s book reconstructs Ortega’s p...
The Cristos yacentes of Gregorio Fern?ez
Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fern?ez, author Ilenia Col?endoza investigates how and why the artist and his patrons manipulated these images in connection with the religious literature of the time to produce striking images that moved the faithful to devotion. In so doing, she contributes new findings to the topic of Spanish sacred sculpture. The author re-examines these sculptures not only in the context of a larger sculptural group but also as independent sculptures that were intended as powerful aids to contemplation and devotion as was prescribed by the writings of San Juan de la Cruz and Luis de Granada. Combining study of the sculptural works with that of liturgical sources, she reveals the connection between the written word and the sculpted work of art. Through this interdisciplinary approach, the author links Fern?ez's sculptural program with the strategic objectives of major patrons of the period, such as the Duke of Lerma and King Philip III of Spain, both fervent defenders of the Catholic faith.
El arquitecto Francisco Gil González (1905-1962) y la arquitectura salmantina del segundo tercio del siglo XX
[ES] Esta obra se dedica al análisis del devenir arquitectónico de la ciudad de Salamanca desde 1933 hasta 1966, años en los que se produjo una profunda transformación del paisaje urbano. Este arco temporal recorre capítulos de la arquitectura española que comprende desde la Generación del 25, el Art Déco, el Racionalismo, la desorientación de la posguerra que se manifestó a través del historicismo y la arquitectura desornamentada, para finalizar con los intentos renovadores que comenzaron en la década de los años cincuenta. [EN] The aim of this work is to analyze the development of the architecture of Salamanca from 1933 to 1966, years of urban deep transformation. It is includ...
La casa, intimidad y nuevos usos del espacio doméstico
El estudio de la casa desde puntos de vista tan diversos como aspectos materiales y formales, soluciones habitacionales, tipología, así como elementos que se mueven en el ámbito de lo ideológico, simbólico o emocional es el propósito de esta obra colectiva. Este conjunto de investigaciones ofrece una mirada poliédrica que abarca la complejidad del fenómeno de la vivienda en contextos diversos. El marco cronológico y geográfico está muy bien definido, abarcando desde el siglo XVIII hasta el XX, y centrado en el ámbito español. Todos los trabajos recogidos en esta publicación muestran que la vivienda es un ente vivo, por su naturaleza social y cultural, que experimenta un constante cambio y evolución. La casa va adaptándose a muy diversos factores culturales que influyen en los nuevos usos del espacio doméstico.
Destruir y proteger: el patrimonio histórico-artístico durante la Guerra Civil (1936-1939)
Durante la Guerra Civil (1936-1939) la integridad del patrimonio histórico-artístico español se vio seriamente amenazada como resultado de la conjunción de una serie de factores de carácter político, social, cultural y económico. El libro que aquí se presenta analiza tanto su destrucción y disgregación como las medidas desarrolladas para protegerlo y conservarlo a partir del estudio de las políticas culturales puestas en marcha por las autoridades republicanas y las fuerzas rebeldes. Sus diferentes concepciones sobre la cultura y su función social ayudan a explicar las diferencias existentes entre las políticas perfiladas en cada retaguardia y su grado de eficacia. Un aspecto en el que también resulta esencial el perfil y el grado de implicación de los hombres y mujeres que trabajaron en las labores de salvaguardia. Personas que, en muchos casos, pusieron en riesgo sus vidas y sus carreras con el único objetivo de preservar la herencia cultural española.
