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The Polytechnic University of Cartagena hosts from today until Saturday the international congress' Modernism in the Mediterranean Arch, attended by 150 congressmen to listen to a hundred papers on Modernism in Catalonia, Valencia, Region of Murcia, Andalusia, Melilla , Italy and on the influence of Spanish modernism in Argentina.
Together with the UPCT, the congress organizes the Ministry of Culture, the City of Cartagena and the Beltrí Commission.
The School of Architecture and Construction (ETSAE) and the Department of Architecture and Technology of Building are also part of the twelve collaborating entities.
The inaugural conference of the congress has been run by the doctor in History of Art and academic of Fine Arts Raquel Lacuesta, great knower of the modernist style for his work as a restorer of the Barcelona City Council.
- How important is modernism?
- It is the style that has shaped the small and medium-sized cities as they widen beyond its medieval walls.
Modernism is a phenomenon that occurs throughout Europe and is now, fortunately, being valued as the beginning of modern architecture.
Unfortunately, the internal configuration and the interior design has been lost because of the way of emptying the buildings and only preserving the skin that gives the street, with the suffering that entails for the facades.
It is a big mistake that has spread like an oil stain.
Fachadism explains nothing of urban history, how lived those who resided in the building.
- What was the relevance of modernism in Cartagena?
- It was decisive in the formation, configuration and aesthetics of the new city.
To Cartagena comes a late modernism, second and third generation, in the ten and twenty of the last century, but it generates a very unique city, with a very valuable architectural wealth.
- What is known outside the Region of Murcia of Cartagena as a modernist city?
- It's quite unknown.
Few people imagine that in its historical core is an architecture at the level of the European medium-sized cities, forming a social fabric of a capital.
- Does modernism have tourism potential?
- Cartagena has an offer that is worth exploiting.
Within the unit of modernist style, Cartagena has a great heterogeneity when it comes to how its facades and interiors are conceived.
There was a real competition to see who made the most stately, most attractive and striking building.
And iconography is very varied, from the classics, to Catalan and Murcian subjects, as in the Llagostera House.
- A study of the UPCT published this week proposes to recover the modernist garden of the main cemetery of Cartagena.
Are plant elements important in the modernist style?
- It is imperative that the cemeteries retain their urban layout, urban plan, architecture, vegetation and soil to preserve the silence and rest to accompany our memory to the deceased.
Source: UPCT
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