El arquitecto Francisco Gil González (1905-1962) y la arquitectura salmantina del segundo tercio del siglo XX

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[ES] Esta obra se dedica al análisis del devenir arquitectónico de la ciudad de Salamanca desde 1933 hasta 1966, años en los que se produjo una profunda transformación del paisaje urbano. Este arco temporal recorre capítulos de la arquitectura española que comprende desde la Generación del 25, el Art Déco, el Racionalismo, la desorientación de la posguerra que se manifestó a través del historicismo y la arquitectura desornamentada, para finalizar con los intentos renovadores que comenzaron en la década de los años cincuenta. [EN] The aim of this work is to analyze the development of the architecture of Salamanca from 1933 to 1966, years of urban deep transformation. It is included in this period examples of the 1925 Generation architects, the Art Déco, the Rationalism and the postwar confusion with the Historicism and plain cases, to end in the Fifties with the attempt of renovation. Thus, in one hand, the autor is focus in the detailed study of the architect Francisco Gil González (1905-1962; graduate in 1966) life and works. This artist designed rationalism and historicism buildings that, along with some of his modern proposals, extolled him as one of the best architects of Salamanca during the XX Century. In the other hand, this work shows a complete display of the urban normative and also the study of the buildings that were erected during those years by others architects. Así, la autora se centra, por un lado, en el estudio pormenorizado de la vida y obra del arquitecto salmantino Francisco Gil González (1905-1962; titulado en 1966). Este facultativo destacó por la calidad de sus diseños de estilo racionalista e historicista y por la modernidad de algunas de sus propuestas, lo que, en conjunto, le encumbró como uno de los mejores arquitectos de Salamanca del siglo XX. Por otro lado, la obra también incorpora una completa exposición de la normativa urbanística aprobada en esos años, así como los inmuebles proyectados por un nutrido grupo de arquitectos a los que se han dedicado completas biografías en las que se incluyen sus etapas arquitectónicas.

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