ABSTRACT
Shortly before the Civil War Spanish architecture saw its rst peak since Villanueva’s time. In 1927 a new generation of avant-garde architects appeared in Madrid: the ‘1925 Generation’, a group of young professionals who gathered around the Paris ‘Art-Déco’ Expo. An architectural revolt took place with this group’s rst works, presided by a modernist mentality that contested the mainstream. Theirs was a critical and reexive design resulting in a culturally constituted architecture, closer to the roots of those architects’ rather than to the stricter rules of International Style. However, within ten years the explosive energy was to be refrained by a cruel war: the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).
