Turning Point 1946-1956: Social Housing for the Middle Class

Authors

  • Carlos Sambricio

Abstract

The author tells of how Miguel Fisac won the Madrid College of Architects prize for ‘Economic Housing’ with
his ‘Linked Housing’ project in 1949 and of how five years later a group of architects that included Oiza and
Romany put forward their project for three huge blocks ten stories high and 170 m. long as an answer to
the problem of middle class housing.
Social Housing, it is here said, can be approached in a variety of ways. Studying how legislation fixed access
to the same might be one, how it was in fact built another and yet again how it sought to bring in a certain
modernity or safeguard craftsman-like traditions others again. This paper tries to ascertain how the need
for such housing shifted from that of providing economically viable shelter to one of housing a burgeoning
middle class.

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Published

2009-12-14

How to Cite

Sambricio, C. (2009). Turning Point 1946-1956: Social Housing for the Middle Class. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 41(161-2), 521–527. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/75948

Issue

Vol. XLI, núm. 161-162 (2009). Vivenda social ahora

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Copyright (c) 2009 Carlos Sambricio

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