Eduardo Torroja: The Alloz Aqueduct

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  • Carlos García Vázquez Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla (ETSAS)

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https://doi.org/10.52200/45.A.CTQ8S8OZ

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Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern housing

Abstract

Eduardo Torroja Miret graduated as an engineer in 1923. That same year, after a bloodless coup d’état, General Primo de Rivera assumed the control of government in Spain and launched a modernizing economic program clearly based on infrastructure: development of the telephone network, modernization of ports, tramway system expansion, creation of 800 km of railroads, extension and paving of over 15,000 km of roads...

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Vázquez, C. G. (2011). Eduardo Torroja: The Alloz Aqueduct. Docomomo Journal, (45), 42–45. https://doi.org/10.52200/45.A.CTQ8S8OZ

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2011-12-01

Issue

No. 45 (2011): Bridges and Infrastructures

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Essays

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Copyright (c) 2011 Carlos García Vázquez

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Author Biography

Carlos García Vázquez, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla (ETSAS)

Architect and Full Professor in the Department of Architectural History, Theory and Composition at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla (ETSAS). He is the author of several books such as Antípolis. El desvanecimiento de lo urbano en el Cinturón del Sol (Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2011), Ciudad hojaldre. Visiones urbanas del siglo XXI (Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2004) and Berlín–Potsdamer Platz: metrópoli y arquitectura en transición (Caja de Arquitectos, Barcelona, 2000). He is a member of docomomo Iberia.

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