Ciudad Universitaria Teaching Faculty

In 1952 I received the order from the Ministry of National Education of drafting the project of a building plan in the University City for the Labor Education Board. As the services that was going to house this set of buildings was very varied – Board of Trustees and governing staff, teaching and training of teachers, administrative area, storage, creation and cataloging of different library services, pedagogical cinema, tapes, etc.-, the convenience of creating a set of buildings linked by courtyards and gardens in a free and articulated arrangement was considered. Urbanistically, this conception was better suited to the special circumstances of the topography of the land, since in no case created an opaque barrier to the wonderful open view of the Guadarrama mountain range that is presented from the plaza built in front of the Ministry from air. On the other hand, as has already been said, the heterogeneous services that made up the program could be separated and joined at the same time with more logical structuring, and this provision also responded to the design criteria of the designer and that could be found in references such as The Alhambra. En el año 1952 recibí del Ministerio de Educación Nacional el encargo de redactar el proyecto de un plan de edificaciones en la Ciudad Universitaria para el Patronato de Enseñanza Laboral. Como los servicios que iba a albergar este conjunto de edificios era muy variado – Patronato y órganos rectores, enseñanza y formación de profesores, zona administrativa, almacenamiento, creación y catalogación de diferentes servicios de biblioteca, cine pedagógico, cintas magnetofónicas, etc.-, se pensó en la conveniencia de crear un conjunto de edificaciones enlazadas por patios y jardines en disposición libre y articulada.