Focos de creación, impulso e innovación: El Centro Niemeyer

Abstract

María Soledad Álvarez Martínez (coord.), Focos de creación, impulso e innovación: El Centro Niemeyer, Ediciones Trea, Gijón, 2018, ISBN 978-84-171-40-84-7. The volume, the culmination of an R&D project on cultural facilities along the Cantabrian coast, analyses the Niemeyer Centre in Avilés from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective, drawing parallels with the urban revitalization of Bilbao. The four authors—María Soledad Álvarez, María del Carmen Bermejo, Rebeca Menéndez, and Natalia Tielve—combine positive assessments with critical objections regarding the architectural and heritage impact of Oscar Niemeyer's building. The reviewer highlights the book's value as an academic contribution to the consolidation of the Centre in the collective imagination, while underscoring the historiographical honesty of the University of Oviedo research team.