Seville: The Ibero-American Exhibition of 1929-1930

This book traces the history of the Andalusian artistic renaissance on the eve of the establishment of the republic. Sixty-three years before the 1992 Universal Exposition, Seville placed Spain at the center of the world with the Ibero-American Exposition. This intense moment of creation gave birth to the exceptional architectural ensemble around the Maria-Luisa park, laid out in the heart of the Exhibition by the French landscaper Jean Claude Nicolas Forestier, author of the Bagatelle rose garden. On the edge of the park, the Sevillian architect Aníbal González built the Plaza de España and the Plaza de America, with the Mudéjar pavilion, the Renaissance pavilion and the Royal pavilion. Architects from the three Americas created the other pavilions in a style “specific to the character of the country represented”. Their constructions – the Alphonse XIII hotel and the new districts which changed the image of the city – led to the revival of local industries with brick, wrought iron and omnipresent ceramics, which reconcile tradition and exoticism, symbols of the Exposition.

23 x 28.5 cm

192 pages

180 black and white and color illustrations

ISBN: 978-2-9092-8305-0

Text in French only