ABSTRACT
The urbanism of the Spanish post-war period (1939−1970) has a clear protagonist, the architect Pedro Bidagor Lasarte (San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, 1906 − Madrid, 1996), a true driving force of contemporary Spanish urban planning.
Pedro Bidagor's professional archive, with the work prepared and compiled by him, was donated by his daughter Pilar to the Historical Service of the Official Association of Madrid Architects in 2002. This archive contains 425 documentary units with more than 8,000 digitized documents, many of them handwritten and most of them unpublished. The collection contains practically all the plans drawn up by Pedro Bidagor, with drafts, outlines and comments, including documents essential to the history of Spanish urban planning such as the Land Law, the Madrid General Plan, the National Urban Planning Plan, etc.
Therefore, the study of the architect's personal archive, which is practically unknown, will surely lead to a rewriting of the history of Spanish urban planning.
Pedro Bidagor was an urbanist involved in the problems of the moment and a modernizer of urbanism in Spain, although with nuances in his sources and his aborted projects.
