Main entry:

Lejeune, Jean-François, author.

Title & Author:

Rural utopia and water urbanism : the modern village in Franco's Spain / Jean-François Lejeune.

Publication:

Berlin : DOM Publishers, [2021]
©2021

Description:

407 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits ; 23 cm

Series:

Basics series ; volume 133

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword -- Introduction: The Rural Paradigm of Modernity -- The Modern Village: Regenerationism and the Modernisation of Spain -- The Ordered Town: The Reconstruction of the Devastated Regions -- Reconstruction: An Atlas of New Villages -- Rural Poetics, New Nature, and Modernity: The Pueblos de Colonización, 1939-1971 -- Reinventing The Pueblo: Alejandro de la Sota's Surrealist Modernity -- Landscape, Abstraction, and Integration of the Arts: The Villages of José Luis Fernández del Amo -- Colonisation: An Atlas of New Villages -- Contemporary Pictures. -- Annex.

Summary:

¨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 José Luis Fernández del Amo, Alejandro de la Sota, and Antonio Fernández 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."--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9783869225050 (paperback)
386922505X (paperback)

Subject:

City planning Spain History 20th century.
Cities and towns Spain History 20th century.
Villages Spain History.
Villes Espagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Villages Espagne Histoire.
Villages
Spain History 1939-1975.
Espagne Histoire 1939-1975.
Spain
Civic & landscape art Modern and Contemp. Architecture

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Basics (Berlin, Germany) ; 133.

Modern village in Franco's Spain

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325635
Call No.: 325635
Copy: 1
Status: Available