The first to speak was
Aart Oxenaar; he spoke about the architecture of Holland
at the beginning of the 20th Century and how it influenced
the introduction of reinforced concrete in the search
for a national architecture and in the foundations of
a new style. The architects of that period wanted to use
the new material, but, at the same time, considered basic
conservation of the traditional construction methods.
Jos Tomlow, another of the founders
of the Group of "Gaudinistas" in Holland, discovered,
in front of a captive audience, a series of points in
common between the works and the architectural ideas
of Gaudí and the Dutch Cuypers. Tomlow did this by displaying
slides of buildings by these two brilliant architects
of the beginning of the century.
The next lecturer was architect José
Luis González Moreno-Navarro, doctorate in architecture
and professor at the UPC of Barcelona, who is now directing
the restoration of the crypt in the church at Colonia
Güell. During his lecture, a series of images was projected
to show the evolution of the construction. The series
explained the project of the recuperation and the conditioning
of the upper part of the flat, transitable roof from
which one will be able to view the points where the
church pilars were supposed to have been built, had
construction not stopped in the second decade of this
century.
After a short break, Jan Molema read
a brief presentation by Doctor-Architect Joan Bassegoda
i Nonell, who, in the end, was unable to attend the
Conferences. The presentation dealt with the influence
of architect J. Cuypers on Joan Rubió Bellver.
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