Cañada de Agra (I)

This article is part of Never Modern , a series curated by Hidden Architecture where we explore the conditions of several urban projects from 1950s onwards that, starting from the hypothesis of Modernism, they surpassed its orthodoxy to adapt the urban features to local conditions. Este articulo es parte de Never Modern , una serie comisariada por Hidden Architecture donde exploramos las condiciones de varios proyectos urbanos de 1950 en adelante en los que partiendo de las hipótesis del Movimiento Moderno, se superaron la ortodoxia de varios postulados para adaptar sus características urbanas a las condiciones locales. Original drawings and images given by Rafael Fernández del Amo Further reading on Cañada de Agra (II) Cañada de Agra is one of the more than ten Poblados de Colonización that José Luis Fernández del Amo built for the Instituto Nacional de Colonización. The aim of this public institution was to build small urban centres in regions that had been left uninhabited during the Spanish Civil War. The function of these settlements was to re-establish agricultural and livestock farming processes in territories where they had disappeared. Each of the families housed in one of the dwellings was also assigned a variable area of land to work, although most of these initiatives did not achieve the desired objective. The official body in charge of overseeing these developments did not offer the necessary support to enable families to settle down and develop their economy. Only a few villages where agricultural cooperatives were created actually functioned as dynamisers of the small-scale rural economy. Cañada de Agra es uno de los más de diez Poblados de Colonización que José Luis Fernández del Amo ejecutó para el Instituto Nacional de Colonización. Esta institución pública tenía como objetivo la construcción de pequeños núcleos urbanos en regiones que habían quedado deshabitadas durante la Guerra Civil española.