For instance, the Spanish Civil war had a certain impact on architecture, leading to the taxonomy of pre-war and post-war architectures. Yet, the bond between relevant historic events and the dominant architectural discourse is undeniable. This Architectural Bilderatlas tries to detach itself from traditional historiographies and more conventional proposals based on chronological or sequential discourses to propose integrating perspectives in order to expand and enrich the contribution of conventional historiographies. The use of the photographs is partly justified by the cultural relevance that these images have gained over the last century. The objective is to map its historical, geographical and social complexity using architectural documents in some and photographs in the vast majority of the cases presented. Thus, this dissertation proposes an Atlas of Architectural Images (Architectural Bilderatlas) that illustrates the twentieth-century Spanish architecture. His journey through time is laid out in a series of panels in which the images selected subordinate to the whole montage without losing their own identity. On this basis, the research follows the trail of Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas who, at the beginning of the twentieth century, tried to narrate the survival of certain elements of classical antiquity. Presenting such a fragmented reality in a cohesive and comprehensive way requires a methodology that allows and encourages the appearance of new paradigms based on the reorganization of pre-existing fragments. The ultimate aim of this work is to recognize project strategies that allow the establishment of a new framework to understand Spanish architecture of the twentieth century. This research aims to demonstrate that it is possible to identify some constants in the way that architecture has been approached in Spain over the last century, and that this approach is not linked to time, ideological or stylistic concerns but to the definition of an assortment of problems and the attempts to solve them. If preconceived notions are set aside and questions are directly addressed to architecture, new connections will arise and elements that were once seen as opposites will appear to have potentially closer associations. Given that premise, if XX-C Spanish architecture is approached, avoiding positivist criteria and diachronic taxonomies, it will come to light how paradoxically partial the listings are, proposed by the traditional historiographies. History books and critical essays tend to approach any discipline favouring the diachronic succession of events, instead of promoting other types of taxonomies that might be able to offer a more complex and comprehensive view of the subject. However, this inclination to put knowledge in order has lost its original interest over time. Since the late nineteenth century charts, lists, atlases and encyclopaedias offering listings and categories have been a constant in all the arts and sciences. The idea of finding order in the world that surrounds us is one of the focal obsessions of Modernity.
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