Over the last two years, the project Colegiado número 171 has followed the footsteps of Manuel Sánchez Arcas (Madrid, 1897 – East Berlin, 1970), one of the most important architects of Modernity in Spain who, nevertheless, remains practically unknown to the general public.
Trained in Madrid and London, and belonging to what is known as the Generation of ’25, Manuel Sánchez Arcas developed an institutional, technical, and political activity that placed him at the very center of the republican project, combining his role as a modern architect trained in the principles of constructive rationalization with a firm commitment to social transformation and public architecture. This ethical and political interest in architecture as a material response to devastation and as a tool for the future runs through the triptych Восстановление / Odbudowa / Wiederaufbau, which connects the early experience of the European ruins of the Great War with the central place that reconstruction would acquire decades later, during his exile.
