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.

David Cohn is an American architecture critic based in Spain. His books include Young Spanish Architects and monographs on the Spanish architects Manuel Gallego and Francisco Mangado.

1 A Short History, 1750­1925
2 The First Modernists, 1910­1925
3 The Generation of 1925 in Madrid, 1925–1936
4 The Provinces and Barcelona, Stylists versus Revolutionaries, 1929–1939
5 Modernism Expunged, The Civil War and its aftermath, 1936–1950
6 The Return to Modernism: 1949–1960
7 The Organicist Eden: 1960–1975
8 Building Democracy, 1975–1992
9 Over the Top: 1992–2015
Epilogue

References
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Acknowledgements
Photo acknowledgements
Index