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grouping on linear and geometric blocks in an orthogonal and independent arrangement around a series of gardens, open spaces and sports areas. It included T-shaped structures for general services, two bedroom pavilions with corridors to the north and rooms to the south, the director's residence, a conference room and other facilities. Lacasa chose a modular design that allowed repetition of brick forms in pure rationalist orthodoxy. After the civil war the whole complex had to be rebuilt, although the original spirit was preserved.
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Lacasa was an architect at the
Academy of Architecture of the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1954. Between 1943 and 1944 Lacasa and Sánchez Arcas were displaced to the Urals for work on fortifications and defense of Moscow. He spent 1954–60 in China with his family as head of the Spanish section of the
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In 1926 Lacasa designed a small residential palace for ValentĂn Ruiz SenĂ©n that was later occupied by the
British Institute for many years. It has a surprising neoclassical style. The building was erected in 1926-31. It was later remodelled by Luciano Delage Villegas in 1944 and then enlarged by
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In 1932 Lacasa designed four residential colleges for Madrid
University, Antonio Nebrija, Ximénez de Cisneros, Menéndez y Pelayo and Diego Covarrubias. They were built in 1935–36, and rebuilt and enlarged by Javier Barroso Sánchez-Guerra in 1941–43. The complex of buildings and facilities was a
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In 1960 Lacasa was permitted to return to Spain. A group of young modernist architects heard of his return and decided to organize a tribute. Paco OĂza, JosĂ© Luis Romany, Carlos Ferrán, Luis Miquel and Pedro
Casariego arranged the details and asked the Directorate General of Architecture for
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financial help for the event and for Lacasa himself. The
Director General GarcĂa Lomas, who later became mayor of Madrid, responded by giving Lacasa 24 hours to leave Spain. He had spent only a month in his native country. In 1964 Lacasa published a memoir about his brother in law,
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and Luis MartĂnez-Feduchi and introduced the rationalist architecture of the Modern
Movement to Madrid. The group organized the 11th National Congress of Architecture in 1925 and the first National Congress of Urbanism in 1926. From 1927 he worked in the Technical Office of the
96:(1936–39) was rationalist and functional. He is best known as co-designer of the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exposition, a work designed to showcase the modern legitimacy of the embattled Spanish Republic. After the war he went into exile in the Soviet Union.
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and by the French architect Abella. The two main architects favoured different styles, with Lacasa in favour of regionalism and social realism and Sert in modern rationalism. Sert's views prevailed in the structure, while Lacasa was responsible for the
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Manuel Sánchez Arcas and Lacasa won the 1927 competition by the Board for the
Extension of Studies to build the Instituto Nacional de FĂsica y QuĂmica (Institute of Physics and Chemistry) funded by the International Education Board of the
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Foreign
Languages Publishing House. In Peking Lacasa and his wife Soledad never locked the door, since in China at that time there was no concern about thieves, and to lock the door would be insulting to visitors.
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320:. A giant portico on the main facade has great simplicity. It recalls classical designs but is free from historicism, and reflects the architecture of the great American universities.
245:(Grupo de arquitectos y ticnicos espafioles para el progreso de la arquitectura contemporinea). In a book he published in 1937 Lacasa laid out his architectural beliefs and criticized
163:, writing articles in which he defended the principles of functionalism. Lacasa belonged to the group of architects of the "Generation of 25", which also included Sánchez Arcas,
270:, in Budapest under the pseudonym of "Peter MartĂn". He worked in the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences until his death. He died in Moscow on 30 March 1966.
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390:. Picasso visited the pavilion while it was being built, and Sert visited Picasso in his workshop while he was making the painting. The Spanish pavilion was rebuilt in
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373:, head of the Directorate General of Fine Arts, made key decisions about the content, as did the Ministries of Propaganda and Public Industry.
108:, Asturias, in 1899. His father, Telmo Lacasa, was the road engineer for Ribadesella. Later his father was reassigned and the family moved to
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In 1923 Lacasa returned to Spain, where he gave lectures on the German approach to urban planning. He became a contributor to the journal
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in Barcelona, a reproduction of the 1937 Spanish pavilion
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341:Spanish pavilion at the 1937 Paris exposition
191:Hospital Provincial de Toledo (1926–31) with
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193:Manuel Sánchez Arcas
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508:Malo de Molina 2015
165:Luis Gutiérrez Soto
126:The Order of Toledo
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