Un soplo de modernidad en los 60 en Murciacuatro iglesias de Enrique Sancho Ruano

Abstract

In the early 60s, architecture again play an important role in the region, thanks to the economic situation of the development policy that puts an end to years of autarky of the 50s. The introduction of a modern expression and commitment to modernity in a culturally backward territory, will come, among others, from the figure of the architect Enrique Sancho Ruano. He starts an investigation to through its relationship with religious architecture, where contemporary art and artists are revealed in all his work seeking ‘a new monumentality’ and the new expression of an era. Sancho Ruano performs a series of 4-5 churches in this period with the directives of the Second Vatican Council. Precursory churches of a model congregation, with a preoccupation with light as matter of architecture. In Barranda (1960-1964) and Los Mateos (1965-1967), works with the concept of ‘dynamic wall’ established by Fisac in Vitoria. In Espinardo (1963-1967) and in Cabo de Palos (1963-1966), he works on a trapezoidal plant, that in El Palmar (c. 1966), deforms to introduce a set of spatial complexity.