Design of Subsidized OSH’s Housing Estates in Post-War Spain. The case of Zaragoza (1954-1964)

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https://doi.org/10.5821/ace.16.48.9526

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Social Housing, Franco’s Regime, Spanish architecture, Zaragoza

Abstract

This paper presents the analysis of the design of dwellings in ten housing estates built by the House Building Union (Obra Sindical del Hogar, OSH) in the city of Zaragoza between 1954 and 1964. All of them were designed by the Spanish architects Alejandro Allanegui and Fausto García Marco. The first part of the text explains the Franco Regime’s regulation on housing subsidies and how it promoted the construction of dwellings of three or more bedrooms. It provides data on the number of dwellings built in the city of Zaragoza, which allows an understanding of the relevance this housing had for the urban growth of the city. Therefore, it presents the urban planning of these housing estates and how their peripheral location exacerbated the social differentiation of the poor families who were intended to live there. The second part of this research analyses the dwellings’ designs, their standardisation and variations, combining the reproduction of the original plans and drawing of the projects and original diagrams. The article discusses how the technical and building improvements of the later housing estates did not affect the interior organisation of the dwellings, which is presented because of the standardisation process created.

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Lucía Carmen Pérez-Moreno, University of Zaragoza

Ph.D. in architecture since 2013 from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM). In 2008 she obtained a Master's degree from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) of Columbia University (New York, USA) and in 2003 an Architect from the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra (ETSAUN), where she won the Extraordinary End of Degree Award, the 2nd Arcelor Chair Award and the 2nd National Award for University Studies (Ministry of Education and Science). Her line of specialization is the historiography of modern Spanish architecture, especially in the late Franco years and in the transition. Since 2008 she has been a professor in the Architectural Composition area of ​​the School of Engineering and Architecture at the University of Zaragoza. He has obtained scholarships and grants from different institutions – ERASMUS, Woodfocus-Finnforest, Banco Herrero Foundation, Jorge Oteiza Foundation-Museum, CAI Social Work, José Castillejo-Ministry of Education – thanks to which he has carried out postgraduate studies and research stays in different international universities –Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland), Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy), Columbia University (New York, USA), University of Colorado (Denver, USA)–. Her work has been published in magazines such as The Journal of Architecture, Progreso Proyecto Arquitectura, RA, DC Papers, VIA Arquitectura or Arquitectos (CSCAE). Her latest book 'Fullaondo and Nueva Forma magazine. Contributions to the construction of an architectural culture in Spain, 1966-1975' was awarded in the research category at the XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in 2016 and was a finalist in the international awards of the CICA (International Committee of Architecture Critics), in the 'Bruno Zevi Book Award' category in 2017. Likewise, his article "Writing the History of Spanish Modern Architecture: Flores and Fullaondo texts from the 1960s" has received the research prize of the XIV Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism of 2018. Currently her scientific activity focuses on gender studies and its relevance in the historiography of Spanish architecture.

Fernando Kurtz Rodrigo, University of Zaragoza

Assistant Professor, Architectural Constructions, University of Zaragoza

Marta Monzón-Chavarrías, University of Zaragoza

Assistant Professor Doctor, Architectural Constructions, University of Zaragoza

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Published

2022-02-28

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Year 16, issue 48 (Feb. 2022)

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