Héctor García-Diego analiza en su tesis las casas de arquitectos extranjeros afincados en España entre 1950 y 1975
Héctor García-Diego analyzes in his thesis the houses of foreign architects living in Spain between 1950 and 1975.
The research covers the most significant examples in Cadaqués, Ibiza, Carboneras and Frigiliana.
Héctor García-Diego has defended at the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra the doctoral thesis 'Refugio, observatorio, templo. Houses of foreign architects living in Spain (1950-1975)'. The research "has tried to look at the significant list of foreign architects who settled in its geography, in the third quarter of the twentieth century, to fix their residency program in it through the design and construction of their own house," he explains.
To do this, Héctor García-Diego has analyzed"a set of life experiences that have materialized in the special group works of architecture that dot some of the most suggestive corners of the peninsular periphery". The cases have been arranged in four chapters: Cadaqués, Ibiza, Carboneras and Frigiliana.
In Cadaqués," the new doctor notes, "the activity developed by the architects Harnden and Bombelli, who built houses for themselves in the constricted urban fabric of the municipality of Girona, is analyzed. In Ibiza, two Germans, Erwin Broner and Erwin Bechtold, established themselves on the island by building their own homes at design . In Carboneras, the Society of Friends of Carboneras, whose leaders included André Bloc, promoted the development of the Almeria town. Finally, in Frigiliana, Bernard Rudofsky erected 'La Casa', his domestic sanctuary in Spanish territory".