A TRAVEL IN TIME: POBLE ESPANYOL IN MONTJUÏC

Authors

  • Sandra Moliner Nuño Escola Técnica Superior d'Arquitectura del Vallès (ETSAV). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
  • Isidre Santacreu Tudó Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona. ETSAB. Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) y de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura La Salle-URL.
  • Ernest Redondo Domínguez Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona. ETSAB. Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/arq.2020.161.05

Abstract

The Poble Espanyol in Montjuïc is an enclosure where the architectural tradition of the towns of Spain is recreated through the appropriation of the typical elements of its architecture. It was built for the Universal Exhibition of Barcelona in 1929 and still survives as a distribution center for popular handicrafts, as well as a space for leisure and culture. To carry out the realization of the Poble’s project, a series of travels were made to Spain between 1927 and 1928, where hundreds of photographs, notes and travel sketches in notebooks were taken, which until today remain hidden. The main topic of the present investigation is the demonstration that the trips were essential in the final result of the project; without which it would have been very different. The travels gave the Poble a complexity to overcome the generalized schematization of analogous projects. To achieve our goal, the collection, classification and analysis of all the material that was collected during the travels, extracted from public and private funds, including the discovery of unpublished material: the travel notebooks, that allows us to deepen in the ‘making off’ of the Poble Espanyol, were made.

 

Keywords: Architectural heritage, Universal Exhibition of Barcelona of 1929, urban scenario, travel notebooks.

Author Biographies

Sandra Moliner Nuño, Escola Técnica Superior d'Arquitectura del Vallès (ETSAV). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).

Architect for the ETSAB. School of Architecture of Barcelona. 1991-1999.
Since 1999 I work for myself as an architect in my own studio.. Since 2009 I have been associated with the architect Isidre Santacreu Tudó.
Doctor for the Department of Architectural Representation of the ETSAB. 2018.
Professor of Graphic Expression at the Technical School of Architecture of the Vallès, ETSAV, of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), from the academic year 2009-2010.
Professor of Graphic Expression at the School of Architecture of La Salle, Ramon Llull University, from 2002 to 2013, in which I was responsible for the international group of students.

Isidre Santacreu Tudó, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona. ETSAB. Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) y de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura La Salle-URL.

Professor of Graphic Expression at the Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona, ETSAB, of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), from the academic year 2018-2019.
Professor of Graphic Expression at the School of Architecture of La Salle, Ramon Llull University (Barcelona), from 2002 until now.

Ernest Redondo Domínguez, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona. ETSAB. Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)

Professor of Graphic Expression at the Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona, ETSAB, of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC).

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Published

2019-01-31

How to Cite

Moliner Nuño, S., Santacreu Tudó, I., & Redondo Domínguez, E. (2019). A TRAVEL IN TIME: POBLE ESPANYOL IN MONTJUÏC. Arquitetura Revista, 16(1), 78–96. https://doi.org/10.4013/arq.2020.161.05

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2020): Jan-Jun

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