Las ciudades históricas y la destrucción del legado urbanístico español

Abstract

Ascensión Hernández Martínez, Las ciudades históricas y la destrucción del legado urbanístico español. Fernando Chueca Goitia, Zaragoza, Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2019, ISBN 978-84-17873-99-8. The book offers a rigorous critical re-reading of La destrucción del legado urbanístico español (1977), a fundamental yet long-forgotten work by architect and historian Fernando Chueca Goitia, alongside five other essential texts by the author on the conservation of Spain's urban heritage. Hernández Martínez places Chueca's thought within the European context of the 1960s and 1970s, shaped by the Venice Charter of 1964 and the Bologna model of historic-centre intervention, demonstrating how the architect made the defence of urban heritage central to his professional and intellectual career. The review praises the book as a solid and necessary contribution to heritage studies, restoring Chueca Goitia's overlooked role in twentieth-century Spanish architectural historiography.