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Joelho Revista de Cultura Arquitectonica

2023; Coimbra University Press; Linguagem: Inglês

10.14195/1647-8681

1647-8681

Architecture, Modernity, and Design

There is no sign of architects from Madrid.So who explained Madrid as a functional city?Thereafter -when the CIAM began to gravitate around Le Corbusier and social-democratic architectural culture of German affiliation lost clout -Madrid architects disappeared from from the international, cosmopolitan scene marked by those congresses.No wonder, then, that nobody trained at the Madrid School of Architecture or practicing in Madrid participated in the final CIAM gatherings -in which the end of the congresses was already being planned, as attested by the candid photograph taken in Otterlo in 1959 (Fig. 1), where the Smithsons, Voeckler, and Bakema can be seen holding a placard announcing the decease of the CIAM, Aldo van Eyck and Blance Lemco peeping from underneath -nor in the meetings of Team 10.1 We can only ascertain the presence, in the Team 10 gatherings, of José Antonio Coderch2 (invited into membership through Josep Lluís Sert's intercession) and Federico Correa3 (invited to Urbino in 1966), both of whom had studied at the Barcelona School of Architecture4 and were practicing in the Catalonian capital.This of course does not mean that architects from the Madrid School, or professionally based in the Spanish capital, were unreceptive to the ideas being debated on, in the Team 10 encounters of the period 1959-1981.On the contrary, the projects undertaken by its leading members in the 1960s and 1970s were closely watched by the more active core of Madrid architects. Absence in Critical and Historiographic DebateNevertheless, it should help to make some inquiries and point out some nuances of a critical and historiographic nature.If we look at the principal publications that dealt with Spanish architecture of the second half of the 20th century in historiographic terms, the panorama we find is desolate, lacking in mention of Team 10 and its discourse.