Viviendas para el Patronato de Casas Militares / Dwellings for the Military Housing Trust
Javier García-Germán, Ricardo Sánchez Lampreave and Alejandro ValdiviesoThe book traces the history of the building, from the demolition of the former Hospital de la Princesa, the first attempts to build a housing complex for military personnel
Fernando Higueras, Antonio Miró, Madrid 1966-1974
Javier García-Germán, Ricardo Sánchez Lampreave and Alejandro Valdivieso
Being the first book series dedicated to vindicating and disseminating Madrid’s 20th century architectural heritage both among the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM) members themselves —and, in particular, among the youngest ones— as well as among the citizens of Madrid, the 'Libros de Arquitectura' Series will dedicate its first volume to Housing. As a secondary objective, by offering the books in a bilingual Spanish-English edition, the possibility of distributing them outside Spain is raised, positioning, in addition to the work of the COAM’s Special Collections Archive, the work of the architects and the architecture from Madrid; updating it based on the paradigms proposed for each of the forthcoming issues of the magazine Arquitectura (territory, climate, inclusion, body, beauty and practice).
Motivated by the absence of a document that critically determines its value and validity —by updating the
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