Planning Death. Designs by the Architect José Mancera for Cemeteries in the Province of Badajoz
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24197/bsaaa.87.2021.257-279Keywords:
National Institute of Colonisation, Spanish architecture, modern architecture, funerary architecture, cemeteries, José Mancera, Extremadura, BadajozAbstract
The National Institute of Colonisation generated an intense constructive activity in Spanish rural environment. These new villages have been quite studied, but not so their funerary architecture. Architect José Mancera Martínez (1929-2003) worked at the Institute. He designed ten cemeteries for these villages in Badajoz between 1963 and 1970. Five received burials and the other half did not, being currently in ruins. Working on a similar program allowed him to research geometry and develop organic, octagonal, or hexagonal plants. His contribution to Spanish funerary architecture stands out for the diversity of layouts and symmetry as a compositional element.
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