La cocina moderna en la vivienda colectiva espa?ola a través de los concursos de arquitectura del período 1929-1956

摘要

ObjectiveThe work carried out in the context of the Spanish architecture on the kitchen has mainlyfocused on its equipment. It has not been explained, however, how the modern-kitchen,conceived by architects and economists European in the 1920s, has been incorporated to theresidential project in Spain. This aspect is addressed through housing projects developedbetween 1929 and 1956. Its study will reveal the transit of the pre-modern kitchen, a stoveenclosure, to the modern kitchen, the specialized enclosure, an identifiable piece of the moderndomestic project.MethodologyAn analytical description is made of the kitchen of the cases of study, after establishing thethree models of kitchen-modern and the six characteristic aspects. These are taken fromhousing contests developed in 1929, 1949 and 1956, to which are added two examples ofsignificant residential projects for each of these temporary milestones.ConclusionsThe study reveals a process that was paused and prolonged in time, of which the Spanishwomen architects were absent, as well as the limited imprint of the competitions in the housingpolicy, entering to question its capacity to transform or influence the reality.OriginalityIt raises the reflection on the processes of empirical and experimental research as analternative to the proposals derived from the project Competitions. This aspect seemsparticularly interesting for researching topics relating to collective housing.