Irigaray sobre la arquitectura

Traces the career of the turn of the century Spanish architect, shows his designs for homes, apartments, schools, and churches, and discusses his unique, organic style

Architectural study on the religious buildings of collective character built by the Jewish community of Buenos Aires in the 19t and 20th centuries and where the synagogues are the best examples. Their choices of architectural styles or languages responded to the historic moment when these buildings were constructed and respond to the preferences of each group according to their origin or its constructors or architects. The study analyses their morphology, mostly monumental, outside the city limits, and loaded inside and outside with ornaments and visible symbols of Judaism.

A detailed study that examines the architecture of Fernando Martínez Sanabria (b. Spain, lived and worked in Colombia since 1938- d. 1991) throughout one of his most recognized buildings: the building of the Caja Agraria (1965) located in Barranquilla. The author examines this commercial project from its initial design process and proposes an analytical view of the building through its anatomical construction systems of light and semi-darkness developed by architect Martínez Sanabria.

El libro analiza cómo convivió el desarrollismo franquista a partir de 1958 con la violencia política y represiva, entendiendo que no hubo el uno y la otra, sino el uno «en» la otra. Se acerca a los discursos populares que construyó el franquismo para ganar apoyos entre la opinión pública. Y, por otro lado, utiliza las fuentes policiales (de la Guardia Civil, de la Dirección General de Seguridad y de los gobiernos civiles) para estudiar la socialización política antifranquista que buscó deslegitimar a la dictadura. Es la historia no de grandes líderes, cuya imagen no se agiganta...