Yale Architecture Forum
María González Pendás
Empty Pavillions, Holy Histories, and the Fascist Imperiality of the Mudejar
While it is now widely understood that fascism did not in fact vanish in 1945, much is still to be understood about the global tactics and aesthetics deployed by the ultra-right after World War II, architecturally and otherwise, for purposes of self-enunciation and propaganda. This talk will see to one such tactic in the reactivation of the Mudejar as both a historiographic and a spatial technique of imperial regeneration, and more specifically of Hispanidad, in pavilions designed for Franquista Spain under the global cultural politics of Opus Dei technocrats.