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- Title
Proyectando la muerte. Diseños del arquitecto José Mancera para cementerios en la provincia de Badajoz.
- Authors
CENTELLAS SOLER, MIGUEL; BAZÁN DE HUERTA, MOISÉS
- Abstract
The National Institute of Colonisation generated an intense constructive activity in Spanish rural environment. These new villages have been quite studied, but not so their funerary architecture. Architect José Mancera Martínez (1929-2003) worked at the Institute. He designed ten cemeteries for these villages in Badajoz between 1963 and 1970. Five received burials and the other half did not, being currently in ruins. Working on a similar program allowed him to research geometry and develop organic, octagonal, or hexagonal plants. His contribution to Spanish funerary architecture stands out for the diversity of layouts and symmetry as a compositional element.
- Subjects
MODERN architecture; ARCHITECTS; CEMETERIES; SYMMETRY; VILLAGES; SEPULCHRAL monuments; SPANISH architecture
- Publication
BSAA Arte, 2021, Issue 87, p257
- ISSN
1888-9751
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24197/bsaaa.87.2021.257-279