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Poblado Dirigido de Entrevías

Towards the end of the 1950s, Spain, which was still recuperating from two wars – the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War – was faced with the reconstruction process…

'If… you can Dream and Not Make Dreams Your Master…' 1

It was coincidence that brought together Federico García Lorca, Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel as students in a new residential building in Madrid. The influence that this building and everything it represented would later have on these three artists’ development and surrealist revolt seems unmistakable in this fascinatingly intertwined history.

Calle de Arturo Soria

Architect/engineer Ricardo Aroca from Madrid realized a number of unusual apartment buildings in the 1970s. The underlying principle was the idea of a vertical shelving rack on…

Torres Blancas

Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza had intended Torres Blancas as a logo for construction company Huarte. Juan Huarte, who built some of Spain’s most prominent buildings in the…