Las incógnitas sobre la puesta en valor de la arquitectura del Movimiento Moderno en pequeñas capitales de provincias: Manuel Pagola y la casa para Nicomedes García

1938, Segovia, a small provincial capital, suffered a demographic exodus and abandonment, physically and spiritually embalmed in the past. With polarized urban growth from the north, a fortress on an impregnable cliff, watchman of Old Castile, a memory of greatness; to the south with the arrival of the railway half a century before as a symbol of opportunity for progress. Silvestre Manuel Pagola, an architect from the provinces, with a history of eclectic styles linked to the fantasy of the place. Nicómedes García, mass man, entrepreneur and optimist. A house at the head of the railroad, looking that way instead of here. Housing-hotel in homothety to the fortress, new figurehead. Huge opportunity to reflect the possible social changes in his time. Freely rationalist architecture and touchstone of a greater career. What would happen to Pagola's work if this house did not exist? What stories do we tell with architectures? Does the enhancement of modern architecture lie in its -isms?

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2026-10-17
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Las incógnitas sobre la puesta en valor de la arquitectura del Movimiento Moderno en pequeñas capitales de provincias: Manuel Pagola y la casa para Nicomedes García

Carlota González, Darío Núñez
Veredes, Arquitectura y Divulgación
Architecture, Modernity, and Design
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Las incógnitas sobre la puesta en valor de la arquitectura del Movimiento Moderno en pequeñas capitales de provincias: Manuel Pagola y la casa para Nicomedes García

Carlota González, Darío Núñez
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1938, Segovia, a small provincial capital, suffered a demographic exodus and abandonment, physically and spiritually embalmed in the past. With polarized urban growth from the north, a fortress on an impregnable cliff, watchman of Old Castile, a memory of greatness; to the south with the arrival of the railway half a century before as a symbol of opportunity for progress. Silvestre Manuel Pagola, an architect from the provinces, with a history of eclectic styles linked to the fantasy of the place. Nicómedes García, mass man, entrepreneur and optimist. A house at the head of the railroad, looking that way instead of here. Housing-hotel in homothety to the fortress, new figurehead. Huge opportunity to reflect the possible social changes in his time. Freely rationalist architecture and touchstone of a greater career. What would happen to Pagola's work if this house did not exist? What stories do we tell with architectures? Does the enhancement of modern architecture lie in its -isms?

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