Spanish Architects from the 20th Century at Spain’s National Library

The Hall of Muses at the Museum of Spain’s National Library (Madrid) presents 'Arquitectos españoles del siglo XX en la BNE. Donaciones', an exhibition that includes plans taken from the studios of 17 great Spanish architects that worked throughout the 20^th century.

All those plans were donated by the BNE (Spanish acronym) and they presently make up the rich fund of architecture drawings and ornamentation of the Fine Arts and Cartography Department’s Service of Drawings and Illustrations.

The most important donations include most of Secundino Zuazo Ugalde’s work and a significant show of Antonio Fernandez Alba’s. Other plans are also being exhibited, thanks to Fernandez Alba, some of which were created by architects Aizpurúa, Bidagor, brothers Borobio (Regino and José), Chueca, Corrales, Fernández del Amo, Fernández Balbuena (Roberto), Fernández-Shaw, Fernández Vallespin, Ferrero (Francisco Javier), Fisac, Gutiérrez Soto, Moya Blanco and Vaquero Palacios.

An Open View

The plans chosen by the curator of the display, Pedro Moleón Gavilanes, offer an open view of the formalization ability printed by these architects on their works, the different matters they have developed on their projects and diverse ways of graphic expression used to represent them.

So, the architecture drawing goes beyond its merely instrumental function and stands as the purpose as such, the result that explains and expresses ideas, shows and proves contents, anticipates and grasps the effect of the work.

Source: Hoy es arte