Arquitectura, Ciudad y Territorio en Málaga (1900-2011)

Abstract

Maite Méndez Baiges (ed.), Arquitectura, Ciudad y Territorio en Málaga (1900-2011), Málaga: Geometría Asociación Cultural, 2012, 354 pp. The work, structured in nine chapters by a team of researchers from the University of Málaga and the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla, offers a panoramic survey of the architectural, urban, and territorial production of Málaga throughout the twentieth century and the early twenty-first, with the concept of 'belated modernity' as its guiding thread. The book examines how Málaga, as a peripheral city relative to the major cultural centres, developed its own identity through eclecticism, regionalism, late rationalism, solar tourist architecture, and the urban planning of the democratic period, culminating in a metropolitan expansion in the twenty-first century. The reviewer regards the work as a rigorous and indispensable instrument for understanding the architectural and territorial complexity of Málaga.