The architectonic pulsion as a creative activity. Justo Gallego Martinez and the “Cathedral” of Mejorada del Campo

Abstract

Nowadays, the artistic creativity is quite often established according to some conditioning factors and parameters – whether legal, social, cultural or political- and, regarding the architecture, this creativity is subject to certain rules and sometimes strict regulations. However, some other ways of creativity -absolutely independent and which are linked to individuals on the sidelines of the artistic and architectonic world- can be found in parallel. These individuals are characters whose intention is being able to deliver on their architectonic dreams, developing and building structures beyond institutional and sponsored requests. Works that are not originated in range with the established rules and that, somehow, lead the artistic systematized activity. The main elements which stimulate the ‘wild architects’ are their force, their enthusiasm, their subjective and individual passion –sometimes turbulent and whimsical- and their personal imagination. This is particularly the case of Justo Gallego Martínez, who created the Cathedral of Mejorada del Campo, being quite evident the appreciation in this fact of a genuine pulsion by means of which a great deal of the creative activity can be conceived.