- Architecture, Cinema, Housing, Arquitectura, Historia de la Arquitectura, Arquitectura Moderna, and 32 moreArquitectura y Diseño, History of architecture, Modern Architecture, Cinematography, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Design, Cinematic Space, Architecture and Cinematic Space, Visual Arts, Spanish Cinema, Spanish Architecture (XXth Century), Arquitectura Española, Visual Studies, Documentary (Film Studies), Cinema and History, Avant-Garde Cinema, Visual Culture, Visual propaganda, Documentary Film, Arte, cine, diseño y arquitectura, Cinema and Architecture, Cinema Studies, Film Studies, Cinema and the City, Social Housing, Arquitectura y urbanismo, Theory Of Architecture, Architectural History, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architecture Design, and Proyectos Arquitectónicosedit
In Spain, the lack of housing focused the debates and proposals on adapting industrialized constructive processes during the 1950s. The professional magazines, specially the Revista Nacional de Arquitectura, collected diverse approaches... more
In Spain, the lack of housing focused the debates and proposals on adapting industrialized constructive processes during the 1950s. The professional magazines, specially the Revista Nacional de Arquitectura, collected diverse approaches to new techniques and published different articles about their application to the economic housing and its construction by prefabricated elements. At the same time, the official cinematographic propaganda by the NO-DO newsreel contributed to spread these researches to the whole population with news about new building components, prototypes of foreign prefabricated housing and exhibitions of construction progress.
Even when these brief reports were shown together with others news of varied content, they contributed to disseminate the new housing building standpoints according to a certain pragmatism and to bring THE professional debates to the general public. The researches developed by the Spanish architects belonged, in turn, to the international context and debates of the CIAM and Team X on the use of technology and industrialization to solve the construction of social housing but applied from a perspective closer to the real situation. Specifically, this paper analyzes how the news presented by NO-DO transmitted professional interests in technical modernization to Spanish people.
Even when these brief reports were shown together with others news of varied content, they contributed to disseminate the new housing building standpoints according to a certain pragmatism and to bring THE professional debates to the general public. The researches developed by the Spanish architects belonged, in turn, to the international context and debates of the CIAM and Team X on the use of technology and industrialization to solve the construction of social housing but applied from a perspective closer to the real situation. Specifically, this paper analyzes how the news presented by NO-DO transmitted professional interests in technical modernization to Spanish people.
Research Interests: Architecture, Film Studies, Architectural History, Housing, Housing and Dwelling (Architecture), and 13 moreCinema, Cinema and Architecture, History of architecture, Arquitectura, Historia de la Arquitectura, Vivienda, Architecture Magazines and Journals, Spain's Newsreels, Arquitectura Española, Spanish Architecture (XXth Century), History of Architecture, Políticas de Vivienda, and Arquitectura Y Cine
Cinematographic images of the city as seen in the Spanish fiction film made between 1940 and 1960 make real filmed environments and their evolution over the years known. The traditional city, the historical centre, the periphery and the... more
Cinematographic images of the city as seen in the Spanish fiction film made between
1940 and 1960 make real filmed environments and their evolution over the years known. The
traditional city, the historical centre, the periphery and the new residential neighbourhoods; all
of them have their representation in films in order to show the social problems and living
conditions of the population.
The study of this real architecture through film lets us know urban spaces, which have nowadays
disappeared, urban structures from a particular time, the spatial and functional transformation processes, and the contrast among trading areas. Likewise, the different movements, techniques
and narrative forms of the cinema contribute to the development of a comprehensive overview
of the parameters that define the city, of its development and different aspects of the social,
cultural and politic life in the period considered. Because of this, it constitutes a basic tool to
study the Spanish architecture through the filter of audiovisual history.
1940 and 1960 make real filmed environments and their evolution over the years known. The
traditional city, the historical centre, the periphery and the new residential neighbourhoods; all
of them have their representation in films in order to show the social problems and living
conditions of the population.
The study of this real architecture through film lets us know urban spaces, which have nowadays
disappeared, urban structures from a particular time, the spatial and functional transformation processes, and the contrast among trading areas. Likewise, the different movements, techniques
and narrative forms of the cinema contribute to the development of a comprehensive overview
of the parameters that define the city, of its development and different aspects of the social,
cultural and politic life in the period considered. Because of this, it constitutes a basic tool to
study the Spanish architecture through the filter of audiovisual history.
Research Interests: Architecture, Film Studies, Cinema, Cinema and Architecture, Film and Architecture, and 9 moreHistory and Theory of Modern Architecture, Arquitectura, Historia de la Arquitectura, Historia Social Y Cultural, Historia De La Arquitectura Y La Ciudad, Arquitectura Moderna, Historia De La Arquitectura Moderna, Arquitectura Y Cine, and Cine y arquitectura
El Noticiario y Documentales Cinematográficos, NO-DO (1943-1985), fue el documental de Estado más destacado en España y permite estudiar la imagen cinematográfica de la vivienda española porque valora la arquitectura inscrita en unas... more
El Noticiario y Documentales Cinematográficos, NO-DO (1943-1985), fue el documental de Estado más destacado en España y permite estudiar la imagen cinematográfica de la vivienda española porque valora la arquitectura inscrita en unas circunstancias concretas. Sus contenidos arquitectónicos y formas narrativas cinematográficas presentan al conjunto de la población una forma específica de ver la vivienda y componer su imagen.
Research Interests:
El Noticiario y Documentales Cinematográficos, conocido como NO-DO y realizado entre 1943 y 1981, recoge los logros sociales durante la dictadura y transición españolas. Permite estudiar la imagen cinematográfica de la vivienda en España,... more
El Noticiario y Documentales Cinematográficos, conocido como NO-DO y realizado entre 1943 y 1981, recoge los logros sociales durante la dictadura y transición españolas. Permite estudiar la imagen cinematográfica de la vivienda en España, tanto de la vivienda aislada como la colectiva, rural o urbana, de arquitectura anónima y de autor. Se pone en valor la arquitectura fundamentalmente de promoción institucional, inscrita en unas condiciones sociales y económicas concretas.Los contenidos arquitectónicos y las formas narrativas cinematográficas utilizadas en el noticiario presentan al conjunto de la población, en otro soporte documental, las políticas de vivienda y su imagen, ejemplo del documental de Estado y su retórica sonora y visual. A través del carácter informativo y didáctico de los documentales, se analiza la arquitectura residencial y los aspectos audiovisuales de sus imágenes y como éstos suponen una aportación al conocimiento de la arquitectura, entendida como exploración de la imagen en movimiento.
