The architecture of the Dutch Welfare State: the TU Delft Aula ; La arquitectura del Estado del Bienestar en los Países Bajos: el aula de la Tu Delft (1948-1968)

During the Cold War, the confrontation between the western and eastern bloc for world supremacy went beyond the sphere of politics and encompassed areas such as culture or lifestyle. The two systems promised a future of progress and happiness to a society dazzled by science and technology. In Western Europe, the welfare society, once freed from the machinist aesthetic and functionalist inter-war determination, found in the international style the means of expressing its aspirations for equality and modernity. In this sense, brutalism became one of the official architectural languages of the we... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Moreno Sanz, Joan
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Verlag/Hrsg.: Universitat Politècnica de València
Schlagwörter: Welfare state / Brutalism / New monumentality / Van den Broek & Bakema / The Netherlands / Estado del bienestar / Brutalismo / Nueva monumentalidad / Países Bajos
Sprache: Spanish
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During the Cold War, the confrontation between the western and eastern bloc for world supremacy went beyond the sphere of politics and encompassed areas such as culture or lifestyle. The two systems promised a future of progress and happiness to a society dazzled by science and technology. In Western Europe, the welfare society, once freed from the machinist aesthetic and functionalist inter-war determination, found in the international style the means of expressing its aspirations for equality and modernity. In this sense, brutalism became one of the official architectural languages of the welfare state and, under its principles, a large part of the post-war public health and education facilities were built. One of the paradigmatic buildings of the new Brutalist Monumentality in the Netherlands is the TU Aula in Delft (1966), the work of van den Broek & Bakema community of architects. The Aula combines the aesthetics of official brutalism with the new civic monumentality, and vindicates the humanistic aspirations of an architectural avant-garde for which man must recover the centrality in the construction of a more diverse and democratic habitat. ; Durante la Guerra fría, el enfrentamiento entre el bloque occidental y oriental por la hegemonía mundial trascendía la esfera de la política y abarcaba ámbitos como la cultura o el estilo de vida. Los dos sistemas prometían un futuro de progreso y felicidad a una sociedad deslumbrada por la ciencia y la tecnología. En Europa occidental, la Sociedad del bienestar encontró en el estilo internacional el medio de expresión de sus aspiraciones de igualdad y modernidad, una vez liberado de la estética maquinista y la intransigencia funcionalista de entreguerras. En este sentido, el brutalismo se convirtió en uno de los lenguajes arquitectónicos oficiales del Estado del bienestar y bajo sus principios se construyeron gran parte de los equipamientos públicos sanitarios y educativos de la posguerra. Uno de los edificios paradigmáticos de la nueva monumentalidad brutalista ...