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

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....

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Published in:Arts (Basel) 2020-06, Vol.9 (2), p.57
Main Authors: Gutiérrez-Mozo, María-Elia, Parra-Martínez, José, Gilsanz-Díaz, Ana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Architects
Architecture
Authorship
Case studies
Collaboration
female architects
Gender
peripheral modernism
postmodernism
Roads & highways
Spanish architecture
teaching facilities
University of Alicante
Women
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2076-0752
2076-0752
DOI:10.3390/arts9020057