Renovación y progreso de la arquitectura en Bilbao. La década prodigiosa (1850-1860)
ISSN: 0214-7939
Year of publication: 2011
Issue: 15
Pages: 75-94
Type: Article
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Abstract
The decade of the 50´s of the 19th century is very important from the point of view of the socioeconomic and political modernization. In the case of the Spanish cities, the ensanches (city expansions) characterize the period and they suppose a necessary adjustment of the urban structures to new needs. Bilbao lives also a moment of modernization especially in the area of the architecture of the housing and particularly of the bourgeois housing that sees now the birth of a new typology. This typology will be the characteristic of his hull ancient and it will be exported to the widening in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first decades of the XX.