Architecture, Art and Technology in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Arantzazu

Abstract

In Spain, the architectural development of the fifties, is included within the second stage of autarky in the country favoured by US aid, loans from European banks for the purchase of goods, and the beginning of tourism expansion and improvement of external relations. In this context, the Basilica of Arantzazu was completed in 1954, a real turning point in the Spanish architectural historiography of the 20th century. Part of the archived documentation on this project has not been published yet, and will be showed for the first time in the paper of Congress, because it is interesting for the light it sheds on the construction process (real architecture, beyond considerations of architectural theory) of the Basilica of Arantzazu.