This is the product of three years of hard work by a large group of specialists who, between 1999 and 2002, documented a total of 160 buildings and sites. The work was published with the title Arquitectura de la industria, 1925-1965. Registro DOCOMOMO Ibérico. 23 new buildings have been added since.
The close relationship between technical and scientific developments that nurtured the industrial transformation of modern societies and their spatial, constructional and functional repercussions as well as the effect on the forms and images is, still today, a field of study and research within various domains and areas of knowledge, in order to deepen our understanding and develop new analyses of a past that continues to shape the present. For architecture this theme refers back to many of the hopes for transformation and desires to create a different world. New requirements of mass production (and mass consumption) created needs that were analysed and interpreted as opportunities to form fresh images. These would translate into ways of living, icons, spaces and architecture that were all new.
Many structures completed before 1970 are no longer used, and people see them as a new type of ruin. They may disappear by being demolished and replaced, be maintained and reused or they can be preserved. These are urgent challenges with no simple solutions.
The Iberian Docomomo aims to publicise the research by members of the Registration Committee of Iberian Docomomo into the selected works. Applying agreed criteria and methodologies, these were chosen from more than 300 initial entries. On the basis of an analysis of these works, moreover, an overall detailed view was put forward of what industry represented for the development of the Modern Movement in the Iberian territories. It was found that industry is an area where testing new materials and striving for building efficiency enable new architecture to develop, and representational factors and symbolism are pushed into second place.
The 183 buildings can be accessed in the database
This Register was published in 2004-2005, in Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan.
Register: The Architecture of the Industry: 1925-1965
Execution: 1999-2002
Direction and coordination
Susana Landrove
Proposal and Selection of Buildings
Ignacio Alonso García
Paloma Barreiro
Amparo Berlinches
Francisco Camino Arias
Miguel Centellas Soler
Carmen Cienfuegos Bueno
Alberto Combarros Villalobos
Joseba Escribano
José Ramón Fernández Molina
Deolinda Folgado
Celestino García Braña
Gerard Garcia Ventosa
Joaquín Ibáñez
Carmen Jordá Such
Gabriela Kacelnik
Manuel Lacerda
Susana Landrove
Xavier Llobet i Ribeiro
Gorka Pérez de la Peña Oleaga
Víctor Pérez Escolano
Ramón Pico Valimaña
José Ribero Serrano
José Antonio Sosa Díaz-Saavedra
Ana Tostões
Iñaki Uriarte
Carlos Vidal Sanz Ceballos
Research and documentation
- ANDALUCÍA
Research and documentation
Miguel Centellas Soler (Almería, Granada, Jaén, Málaga)
Ramón Pico Valimaña (Cádiz, Córdoba, Huelva, Sevilla)
Collaborator
Sebastián del Pino Cabello -
ARAGÓN
Research and documentation
Fernando Aguerri Martínez -
ASTURIAS
Research and documentation
Enrique Escudero Fernández, Mª Fernanda Fernández Gutiérrez, Ana Piquero García, Clara Rey-Stolle Castro, Natalia Tielve García and Angel Sanchís Cienfuegos-Jovellanos
Coordination
Ignacio Alonso García and José Ramón Fernández Molina -
CASTILLA LA MANCHA
Research and documentation
José Rivero Serrano -
CASTILLA Y LEÓN
Research and documentation
Carlos Vidal Sanz Ceballos and Alberto Combarros Villalobos
Collaborators
Fernando de Andrés Álvarez, Eduardo Carazo Lefort, Guadalupe García Catalán, Angel Hernández Díaz, Juan Llamazares Argüelles, Paloma Quintanilla Casado and Ángel M. Román -
CATALUÑA
Research and documentation
Gerardo García Ventosa and Xavier Llobet i Ribeiro -
COMUNIDAD DE MADRID
Research and documentation
Paloma Barreiro and Amparo Berlinches
Collaborators
Rafael Cuenca, Bruno González and Pablo Ortega -
COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA
Research and documentation
Carmen Jordá Such
Collaborators
Manuel Lillo Navarro and José Parra Martínez -
EXTREMADURA
Research and documentation
Carmen Cienfuegos Bueno and Francisco Hipólito Ojalvo -
GALICIA
Research and documentation
Celestino García Braña -
ISLAS BALEARES
Research and documentation
Gabriela Kacelnik
Collaborator
Eloisa Sordelli -
ISLAS CANARIAS
Research and documentation
Jose Antonio Sosa Diaz-Saavedra
Colaboradores
Fernando Beautell Stroud and Enrique Solana Suárez -
MURCIA
Research and documentation
Francisco Camino Arias and Francisco Matas Luján -
NAVARRA
Research and documentation
Gorka de la Peña Oleaga
Technical assesment and photography
Iñaki Uriarte Palacios -
PAÍS VASCO
Research and documentation
Gorka de la Peña Oleaga
Technical assesment and photography
Iñaki Uriarte Palacios -
PORTUGAL
Executive coordination
Departamento de Estudios / IPPAR
Manuela Lacerda
Scientific coordination
Ana Tostões
Coordination in the field of Industrial Heritage
Deolinda Folgado (DE/IPPAR)
Research, Study and Data Processing
Ana Catarina Parada (DCR/IPPAR)
Deolina Folgado (DE/IPPAR)
Rute Figueiredo
Sandra Vaz Costa (DE/IPPAR)
Collaborators
Ana Vespeira Almeida
Sérgio Paulo Santana da Silva
