The Roca Barcelona Gallery, with the cooperation of the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, has organized the exhibition “Modernity/Modernities: Architecture in Barcelona, 1924-1975”, which includes a selection of the most emblematic buildings in Barcelona from this period.
Guillem Carabí, a lecturer in the area of Composition at the School of Architecture, is the curator of the exhibition, which was inaugurated on Tuesday, 1 September 2015, and will be open until Saturday, 17 October 2015. The opening hours are from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday to Saturday. Entrance is free.
The exhibition includes different scale models of buildings in Barcelona built between two significant dates, specifically, between 1924, the year in which the Commonwealth of Catalonia was made illegal by Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, and 1975, the year in which the end of Franco's dictatorship marked the return to democracy. The Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War also occurred in this time span. The aim of the exhibition is to reflect on the concept of architectural modernity by examining the historical and cultural phenomena that affected the art and architecture of the time.
The exhibition addresses the different ways modernity has been received, as in the cases of Casa Planells, Casa Vilaró and the Barraquer Clinic. The works of figures such as Oriol Bohigas, Jaume Mestres i Fossas and Ramon Puig i Gairalt are also highlighted.
The 26 scale models of the buildings analysed in the exhibition were made by students in the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture. The students also designed a second scale model to reinterpret some of the most relevant features of each building from a more contemporary architectural perspective.
