Summary - TST 39
TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES
Urtzi LLANO CASTRESANA
The railway and the neo-basque architecture
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[ Abstract ]
The end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th are
characterized by a wide range of architectural styles and
options that could be summarized in an open conflict between the
form and the function of which the railway architecture becomes
their greatest exponent. In a historicist, post-Romanesque
context, with an evident ‘Revival’ influence, the first
regionalisms based on the characteristic features of the
constructive tradition of the territory and its aesthetic arise
in the State, giving way to a style in the North-Eastern zone
known as the neo-Basque. This style, will allow interesting
exercises of adaptation of the typologies based on this style to
the railway world. These will involve the consolidation of the
neo-Basque style also as a railway style. This article aims to
analyze the incidence and the evolution that the neo-Basque
style has had in the railway architecture, since its origins
until its expansion beyond the limits that could firstly mark
the influence area of this style. Furthermore, this work aims to
provide a wider and a more complementary vision of the style,
exposing some aspects for which both the neo-Basque railway
architecture.