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The Ministry of Housing is exhibiting from March 11 to April 25 a sample promoted by the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra. Under the degree scroll 'Los brillantes 50. 35 proyectos', it brings together and analyzes the work of 30 Spanish architects whose works were carried out in the 1950s, and for whose realization various Spanish schools of architecture were involved. The opening ceremony was attended by University Secretary of the Ministry of Housing, Javier Eugenio Ramos and the professor of the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra José Manuel Pozo, coordinator of the exhibition.

José Manuel Pozo defined the idea of this work as "the attempt to analyze several Spanish architects of the 1950s who were not the usual ones, that is, the 'first row' or the 'consecrated' ones". As he explained, "the goal is to study this group of works to understand in a different way what happened in the field of architecture in Spain during the decades following the two wars, the Spanish and the world wars".

"An unrepeatable moment in Spanish architecture".

Of the 35 projects on display, the one by De la Hoz in Montilla (Córdoba) stands out in the field of housing, which represented a breakthrough B in terms of the minimum space required and the use of surface area. Incorporating new Materials (uralite, sheet metal) was another feature of these architects, as well as industrializing the construction processes to reduce costs and ensure that the benefits of the new architectural forms reached all social strata. The result is perhaps an "unrepeatable" moment, according to Professor Pozo, in the history of Spanish architecture.

The works of the thirty architects featured on exhibition are by Rafael Aburto, Santiago Artal, Juan Antonio Ballesteros i Figueras, Francesc Bassó, Javier Busquets, Fray Francisco Coello de Portugal, Luis Cubillo, Rafael de la Hoz, José Luis Fernández del Amo, Ricardo Fernández Vallespín, José María García de Paredes, Joaquim Gili, Guillermo Giráldez, José Luis Íñiguez de Onzoño, Luis Laorga, Rafael Leoz, Pedro López Íñigo, Francesc Mitjans, Fernando Moreno Barberá, Antonio Perpiñá Sebriá, Carlos Pfeifer, Josep Pratmarsó, Luis Recaséns, José Luis Romany, Javier Subías, Antonio Vázquez de Castro, Ramón Vázquez Molezún and University of Navarra professors Rafael Echaide and César Ortiz-Echagüe.