At the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, the architecture of the modern movement has consolidated itself as a line of research extended throughout the Iberian territory, filtering and contaminating the Schools of Architecture, the official board of architects, and the public institutions. Along with the conquests, the challenges facing our much-appreciated architecture of the modern movement are detected.
Yes, in Spain we were modern too.
This article reflects on authorship as a critical piece in the deepening and complexity of knowledge and heritage valuation, but also in the awareness and social participation towards our architectures of Iberian modernity. The ‘magistral’ theme thus serves us in a transversal way to reflect on geographies and places, approaches and methods, communication and participation. To this end, we start with ‘peripheral’ Iberian modern works, and specifically from the Iberian south of Andalusia, works with which we traverse the considered time frame of the Modern Movement.
In the study of each master, through one of his works, the research processes, but also the vital processes that have surrounded their patrimonialization, are unfolded. The happy discovery, the experience of primary sources such as a family archive, of the building itself and the interaction with the network of agents that it stitches together, explore the experiential and emotional as an inescapable component of their knowledge, in which we can find the connection and social appropriation. Photography completes this propositional reflection, betting on the communicative capacity of this medium, but also leaving open its potential to provoke participation. Effective participation based on the consolidation of a network of agents at different levels up to the citizenry, which allows for the constant updating of modern movement, thus assuming the dynamic and changing conception of heritage.