Product Description

The advances made by modern Spanish architecture from the 1940s, when it lay in silence and obscurity, to the 1990s, when it received worldwide acclaim, is a dramatic story, probably the most remarkable case of postwar architectural progress in Europe. This definitive critical study of postwar Spanish architecture looks at the works, projects, trends, landmarks, architects, and engineers of the period. It is both a descriptive history and a new critical evaluation by one of Spain's most important architectural critics and historians.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1546239 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Review


"Gabriel Ruiz Cabrero gives a lively and extremely sensitive version of the most recent architectural facts placed in the framework of Spanish political history. I would say that the greatest achievement of this book is to provide a thorough and synthetic history of the recent Spanish architecture through very agitated years. The sharp and acute eye of Gabriel Ruiz Cabrero succeeds in presenting the main figures and the most important buildings, helping the reader to understand the variety of the Spanish architectural panorama."
—Rafael Moneo, former Chair, Harvard Design School