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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gutiérrez-Mozo, María-Elia
• Parra-Martínez, José
• Gilsanz-Díaz, Ana

Titel

Women and the Making of the University of Alicante Campus: Critical Reappraisals of Modern Architecture (1982–1999)

Ist Teil von

• Arts (Basel), 2020-06, Vol.9 (2), p.57

Ort / Verlag

Basel: MDPI AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A stroll around the University of Alicante campus is like a journey through the history of Spanish architecture of the last 40 years, as many of its buildings exemplify the best production of the period. This legacy also tells a story about the role played by female architects within the profession. In fact, a gender reading reveals that only two women, Pilar Vázquez Carrasco, the architect of the Faculty of Sciences (FS, 1982) and the Social Club I (1987), and Dolores Alonso Vera, responsible for the Higher Polytechnic School IV (HPS, 1999), have designed structures on the campus over almost four decades and out of a total of more than 50 buildings. The FS is an example of structural sincerity whose brick and concrete materials and externalisation of services provide Brutalist echoes. The HPS IV is a design exercise consisting of a series of elegant, inviting volumes and open spaces intertwined with the campus garden. This essay focuses on the comparative analysis of these two award-winning works to unveil those contributions that female authorship has brought to their solutions by relating them to comparable buildings in space, time and type, but designed by male architects.