GATEPAC (Grupo de Artistas y Técnicos Españoles Para la Arquitectura Contemporánea) was a group of architects assembled during the

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. Its most important members were:

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Antoni Bonet Castellana Antoni Bonet i Castellana (Barcelona, 1913–1989) was a Spanish architect from Catalonia, designer and urban planner. He began his career with Josep Lluís Sert and Josep Torres Clavé. He was a member of GATCPAC. In 1936 he joins the atelier o ...

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, Fernando García Mercadal and Sixte Illescas. The group was formed in the 1930s as a Spanish branch of C.I.A.M. The Eastern (Catalan) and founding section of the group, called

GATCPAC GATEPAC (Grupo de Artistas y Técnicos Españoles Para la Arquitectura Contemporánea) was a group of architects assembled during the Second Spanish Republic. Its most important members were: Josep Lluís Sert, Antoni Bonet Castellana, Josep ...

(Grup d'Arquitectes i Tècnics Catalans per al Progrés de l'Arquitectura Contemporània) was much more successful than the Central or Northern sections, and carried out government contracts during the Second Republic. GATCPAC also published the magazine ''A.C.'', or ''Actividad Contemporánea'', which remains an important document for the history of Modern Movement in Spain. Most, but not all GATEPAC members fought on the Republican side during the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, link ...

. Torres Clavé was killed in action.

went into exile in the United States, where he would teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Antoni Bonet established himself in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Having been associated with the Second Republic, GATEPAC was taboo in

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and reference to it was often censored until the 1950s, when their works were taken up by a new generation of Spanish modern architects like the Catalan

Oriol Bohigas Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola (20 December 1925 – 30 November 2021) was a Spanish architect and urban planner, known for his work in the modernization of Barcelona. Early life Bohigas was born in Barcelona, Spain, on 20 December 1925 in a Catal ...

External links

«La arquitectura contemporánea en España»
''Cahiers d'Art'', 1931, n.º 3, págs. 157-164 (in Spanish)

In Artehistoria.
«''A.C.'' La revista del GATEPAC (1931-1937) en el Museo Reina Sofía»
''Revista de Arte Logopress'' * Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
«''A.C.'' La revista del GATEPAC»
Pamphlet from an exhibition 29 October 2008 – 5 January 2009

* « ttp://arxiudigital.ateneubcn.org/items/show/691 El GATPAC (Grup d'Arquitectes i Tècnics per al Progrés de l'Arquitectura Contemporània) : de l'arquitectura a la revolució� (audio). ''l'Arxiu de la Paraula''. Ateneu Barcelonès, 2014. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gatepac Architecture in Spain Urban planning organizations