Yolanda Barcina, Mayor of Pamplona, inaugurated together with Ángel J. Gómez-Montoro, President of the University of Navarra, the VII International congress History of Modern Spanish Architecture of the academic center. 

More than 50 experts in Architecture and History have met at quotation these days in the event, graduate "Travels in the transition of Spanish architecture to modernity", which has addressed the study and documentation of the trips of Spanish and foreign architects who visited Spain during the twentieth century, from before the civil war until 1975, attending to both their motivations and implications as well as what they learned to show in them.

According to Professor José Manuel Pozo, one of the organizers of congress, "the trips made by Spanish architects abroad were crucial for the updating of Spanish architecture in the 1950s. They made it possible to have contact with the ideas in vogue, artistic and of all kinds, and made it possible to get to know the works of the masters directly, in order to try to apply the knowledge acquired later in their work in Spain".

He also adds that "there were foreign architects who arrived as tourists and were more or less fascinated by Spain, even settling here, spreading these same ideas in their environment and positively influencing the assumption of modernity among their Spanish colleagues".

Among the speakers were architects Mark Wigley, Dean of the School of Architecture of Columbia University, Full Professor of the University of Zurich Werner Oechslin and Juan José Lahuerta, writer and professor of Art History at School of Architecture of Barcelona.

exhibition 'Displaced architectures'.

On the occasion of this congress -which had its starting point last November with a workshop at Columbia University (New York)-, a sample of the Ministry of Housing entitled 'Displaced Architectures' was inaugurated at the Conde Rodezno Exhibition conference room . This exhibition, open until May 30, aims to show the collective pathway and staff of 50 architects exiled after the civil war, and to bring to report these people who had to develop their professional practice far from their homeland.

The sample gathers more than 150 works and projects and includes the reflections of 35 people linked to the architectural exile. Among the works are some by the Navarrese architect Javier Yárnoz Larrosa, who went into exile in Venezuela in 1936. The curator of this exhibition, who gave a lecture, is Henry Vicente, architect and professor of Theory and History of Architecture at the Simón Bolívar University of Caracas (Venezuela).