Francoist architecture in Spain: problems of use, conservation and restoration in democracy.
David Martin Lopez
Lecture summary
Spain, just like the rest of the democracies emerging from dictatorships and totalitarian regimes in a large part of Europe around the 20th century, has adopted or can adopt different attitudes and is open to different interpretations on the problematic cultural legacy inherited by this past. This has been, and still is, a matter of dispute and its integration as a part of a collective memory of the past has not been resolved in a satisfactory manner in our society today. The objective of this lecture is to analyse the architecture created during the Franco dictatorship which represent the glorification of this political regime and the actions that should be taken (conservation, modification, destruction, use, etc.) to adapt them to ethical and legal requirements as demanded by the democratic system in Spain. The above research is part of the R&D&I project Heritage and the Memory of Francoism: Conservation or Resignification in Democratic Spain (PAMEFRA). PID2019-111709GB-I00. MINISTERIODE CIENCIAE INVESTIGACIÓN.
Short CV
David Martín López holds a European PhD in Art History by the University of Granada (2010), with the Outstanding Doctorate Award. He is professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Granada where he directs the Universitarian Cultural Centre of Casa de Porras, Vice-rectorate of Outreach and Heritage. He has done several academic stays in England, France and Portugal. In those countries he did his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Univ. Nova de Lisboa (2011-2013), granted by the Spanish Ministry. His research activities are focused on the Freemasonic aesthetics, architecture during the European regimes and hermetic symbolism and subversion in Art History. He is co-director of the Spanish R+D+I PID2019-111709GB-I00.PAMEFRA. patrimonio y memoria del franquismo, and member of the Spanish R+D+I projects HAR 2009-10554/Arte campo artístico y sociedad en España. (2010-2013), and HAR 2012-31321: El artista y el dolor (2012-2015), ECSTRA European Project, Project Rimon-Sefarad B-HUM-227-UGR18. He has been part of Academic Sessions of the EAUH in Lyon, Prague and Rome, or the EAA at Barcelona (2018), and has participated in DOCOMOMO’s Conference at Slovenia (2018). He has edited the book Between categories, beyond boundaries: Arte, ciudad e identidad (2013) and Suffering in Contemporary Art (2018).
Due to rainy day, the lecture-walk-exploration will take place on Monday 24 April 2023 14.00-17.00.
In the context of the course URBAN VEGETATION on Monday 03.04.2023 14.00-15.00 a lecture-walk-exploration on “Trails to Biodiversity: Trail II. The case of the abandoned Park of Pedion Areos area" with Mrs. Thalia Marou and Eliki Diamantouli (architect engineer UTH, master student in landscape architecture at TUM). The spontaneous biodiversity of a moor habitat that humans had previously intervened in, the plant families, plants and histories of those that exist and/or have emerged over time will be explored.
Meet at the park entrance at 14.00. If you don't know the place, possibility to leave from the entrance of the school on foot and/or bicycles at 13.30.
Participation is independent of course attendance. Any person outside the course, interested in urban and/or peri-urban, spontaneous and/or natural biodiversity can participate.
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Lecture by Anastasia Dossa & Kleopatra-Matina Lanara.
5/4/2023 14:00 room Γ
3/4/23 14:00 room Γ
Modernization, road network and the city. The paradigm of Syngrou Avenue in Athens at the turn of the 19th century.
Evangelia Chatzikonstantinou
27/3/2023, 14:00, room Γ
Syngrou Avenue, the emblematic road that connected Athens with the coastline, opened to the public in November 1904. Its plan was a product of a long negotiation between Greek and foreign engineers, public authorities, and private landowners; its construction was interrelated with the introduction of modern ideas about infrastructure and urban planning; and its ground became a field of socio-technical experimentation and a contested space between different land uses and users. Based on the analysis of the paradigm of Syngrou and drawing mainly on archival material and recent theoretical approaches regarding infrastructure planning and construction the presentation follows the shifts, the tensions and the conflicts that were connected with the production of modern space in Greece at the turn of the 19th century and during the Interwar period. The narration begins at the 19th century, a period when the modern ideal of networked infrastructure was constructed, and it ends at the Interwar period, when the discussion about technical modernization acquired in Greece concrete characteristics. In this context it analyses how the idea of modernization was perceived and appropriated in Greece and the ways it was interwoven with the notions of progress and development and with the expectations of emancipation of broader social groups.
Evangelia Chatzikonstantinou is an architect with an MSc in Urban and Regional Planning and a PhD in Urban History. Her research focuses on urban history, critical geography, and environmental planning. Her dissertation explores the socio-spatial and socio-technical dynamics that made roads a critical symbol of Greek modernization. She has taught urban history, planning and sustainability at the “Plato Academy” program of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the College Year in Athens, and NTUA, and has contributed to multiple research projects at the Urban Environment Laboratory NTUA. She has published several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and a book entitled, "Geographies of Energy Poverty in Athens in the Context of the Crisis"(Angelus Novus), in collaboration with Fereniki Vatavali.
Common Space
Porto 22-26 May 2023
Dept. of Architecture University of Thessaly with other Eurpean Universities will take part in a Blended Intensive Program (BIP) within the Erasmus + Framework organized by ISCTE, IS Vouga, Miguel Torga, Universidade lusófona και C. M. Porto _ Domus Social (Portugal). The program will take place physically in Porto from 22 to 26 May 2023 and virtually before and after these dates. Four/ five students of the Dept. of Architecture UTH can participate at the BIP.
For those interested in the program there will be an on line meeting at MsTeams on Friday 24 March at 12.00. Teams access code: vm1yygf
The Organic City
Berlin 4-12 May 2023
Dept. of Architecture University of Thessaly, Αnhalt University of Applied Sciences (Dessau) and the University Luigi Vanvitelli (Napoli) co organize a Blended Intensive Program (BIP) within the Erasmus + Framework. The program will take place physically in Berlin from 4 to 12 May 2023 and virtually before and after these dates. Ten students of the Dept. of Architecture UTH can participate at the BIP.
For those interested in the program there will be an on line meeting at MsTeams on Friday 24 March at 12.00. Teams access code: vm1yygf
In the context of the course WATER BODIES of Professor Evelyn Gavrilou and Professor Kostis Panigiri on Tuesday 21.03.2023 at 14.30 a lecture on "Aquatic Bodies. Containers: typologies in the natural and urban landscape" will be held at the Postgraduate School's Lobby with Eliki Diamantouli (architectural engineer UTH, master student of landscape architecture at TUM).
The lecture is open to any person and outside the class.
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The sacred, man and its landscape: Symbols of life and death in the landscape of Tinos.
Maria Vidali
20/3/23 14:00 room Γ
The outlying chapel created another place, a threshold between death and rebirth revived not only as the commemoration of a drama in historic time, the death and resurrection of Christ, but also as a commemoration and drama in the life of particular human beings, as part of the human continuum. The inhabitants of the village, as part of their temporality revive a symbolical topography of death, which at the same time is a topography of regeneration and renewal.
Maria Vidali studied architecture at Portsmouth and Kingston University. She holds an MPhil degree in Ηistory and Philosophy of architecture from Cambridge University and a PhD in architecture and language from the University of Thessaly in Greece. She was a research trainee at McGill University with interest in architecture and narrative. Her re-search work Village and Land, The Outlying Chapels on the Island of Tinos was pub-lished in Greece in 2009. She has been running her own architectural office since 2007. Since 2017 she has taught at the Drury Centre in Greece, a study-abroad programme of Drury University of Missouri, Hammons School of Architecture, also at the University of Thessaly, School of Architecture. At the moment she is teaching contemporary urbanism at DIKEMES/ CYA, an educational institution in Athens, based in Cambridge, Massachu-setts and landscape architecture at the University of Ioannina.
The Architectural Design, Digital Fabrication and Building Technology research unit of the Aephoric Design of the Built Environment laboratory of the Department of Architectural Engineering organizes the "2nd Student Scientific Conference" on Tuesday 14/03/2023 at 18:00 in Room Ζ of the Architectural Engineering Department's building.