Bernardo Giner de los Ríos (1888 - 1970) was a Spanish architect and author of architectural works. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction He built many buildings in and around Madrid, including many schools.
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Background
The son of Hermenegildo Giner de los Ríos and Laura García Hoppe, Bernardo Giner de los Ríos was born into a family of intellectuals and progressive politicians. His uncle, Francisco Giner de los Ríos, was a philosopher and proponent of the ideas of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, some of whose aesthetic ideas he translated in 1874 as Compendio de Estética. Francisco Giner de los Ríos (October 10 1839 in Ronda, Spain – February 17 1915 in Madrid) was a philosopher educator and one of the most influential Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language Karl Christian Friedrich Krause ( May 6, 1781 – September 27, 1832) was a German Philosopher, born at Eisenberg Francisco and Hermenegildo Giner de los Ríos also founded the freethinking Institución Libre de Enseñanza in 1876. Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year
Career
Architecture
Between the wars, Bernardo Giner de los Ríos specialised in the construction of schools, serving as a school inspector for the Spanish province of Levante, around Alicante, and built many schools in Madrid. Levante, also referred to as El Levante ( Spanish) is a name used to refer to the eastern Mediterranean coastal region of the Iberian Peninsula ||-||} Alicante ( Spanish language) or Alacant ( Valencian) is a city in Spain, the capital of the province of Alicante and of the Madrid (pronounced in English in Spanish and colloquially in Spain) is the Capital and largest city of Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, from 1936 to 1939, he served as the Minister of Communications, Transport and Public Works for the Republican side. The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted Coup d'état committed by parts of the army against the government of After the war, he spent five years in exile in Paris as the General Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic, before moving on to Mexico. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America.
Writings
In Mexico City in 1952, Giner de los Ríos published 50 Años de Arquitectura Española (1900-1950) ("50 Years of Spanish Architecture"), a history of Spanish architecture in the 20th century that had grown out of a talk that he gave at the Ateneo Español de México in August of 1951. Mexico City (in Spanish: Ciudad de México, México DF, México or simply Méjico) is the Capital city of Mexico Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Though he assumed an objective voice and omitted a political discussion of architecture from this book, his point of view on the history is particularly interesting given his political activity and his family's history with the Institución Libre de Enseñanza. The book adopted a progressive, but technocratic view of modernization and focused on the role of school construction and municipal urban design achievements in Spanish architecture.
Open minded about aesthetics, Giner de los Ríos himself built schools in the modern Madrileño compromise style typical of the younger generation of architects, red-brick with strip windows and moldings of simplified section, like many 1930s buildings at Madrid's new University City (Ciudad Universitaria). Aesthetics or esthetics ( also spelled æsthetics) is commonly known as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values sometimes called Madrid (pronounced in English in Spanish and colloquially in Spain) is the Capital and largest city of Spain. However, Giner's book for the most part set aside politics and matters of architectural style to focus on technical advances and planning successes. Thus continuities across political regimes were emphasized, which might have prevented the later debate between Oriol Bohigas and Carlos Sambricio over the former's Arquitectura Española de la Segunda República (1970).
Responding to Sambricio's critiques, Bohigas's book became Modernidad en la Arquitectura de la España Republicana in 1998. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Had Bohigas read Giner de los Ríos more closely, he might have resisted the desire to simplistically identify modernity in Spanish architecture with the politics of the Second Republic.
From 1961 to 1970, the Boletín de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza resumed publication (it had stopped in 1936) in Mexico under his direction. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Publication resumed in Madrid in 1977, after the Institución was legalized. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays
External links
- article in Catalan about his father, Hermengildo Giner de los Ríos
- article in Spanish from the Fundación Francisco Giner de los Ríos, as the Institución Libre de Enseñanza is now called, on the history of its Boletín.
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