El legado moderno de José Ferragut Pou en Mallorca
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Ferrer Forés, Jaime J.
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Este artículo, que analiza el legado del
arquitecto José Ferragut Pou (Palma de
Mallorca, 1912-1968), presenta la arquitectura
de uno de los arquitectos mallorquines más
destacados y singulares del siglo xx, cuya
extensa producción ilustra el anhelo de alcanzar
la modernidad a través de un racionalismo
empírico atento a las peculiaridades
topográficas, climáticas y constructivas del
lugar. La arquitectura de José Ferragut Pou
es el resultado de una aproximación personal
y una intensa experimentación que trata de
recuperar la construcción tradicional para
el acervo moderno, evocando la tradición
espacial y constructiva del lugar, proyectando
la adaptación de los principios de la ortodoxia
racionalista y, en definitiva, de plantear
una arquitectura adecuada a la escasez de
medios y a las circunstancias económicas
que caracterizan la España de la autarquía.
En la arquitectura pública adopta el reflexivo
uso de recursos diversos que conviven
ordenadamente, desde el clasicismo, que
proporciona, como sistema, una serie de
códigos eficaces con una riqueza plástica y
una estética adecuada, hasta el racionalismo
empírico cuya sobriedad disciplinada le
llevaría en la década siguiente hasta la
moderna abstracción constructiva del edificio
de GESA en Palma (1963-1975) y la iglesia de la
Porciúncula (1965-1968).
This article, which analyzes the legacy of the architect José Ferragut Pou (Palma de Mallorca, 1912-1968), presents the architecture of one of the most outstanding and singular Majorcan architects of the 20th century, whose extensive production illustrates the desire to achieve modernity through an empirical rationalism attentive to the topographic, climatic and constructive peculiarities of the place. The architecture of José Ferragut Pou is the result of a personal approach and intense experimentation that seeks to recover the traditional construction for the modern heritage, evoking the spatial and constructive tradition of the place, projecting the adaptation of the principles of rationalist orthodoxy and, in short, to propose an adequate architecture to the scarcity of means and to the economic circumstances that characterize the Spain of the autarky. In public architecture, he adopts the reflexive use of diverse resources that coexist orderly, from classicism, which provides, as a system, a series of efficient codes with a plastic richness and an adequate aesthetic, up to empirical rationalism whose disciplined sobriety would take the following decade until the modern constructive abstraction of the GESA building in Palma (1963-1975) and the church of the Porciúncula (1965-1968).
This article, which analyzes the legacy of the architect José Ferragut Pou (Palma de Mallorca, 1912-1968), presents the architecture of one of the most outstanding and singular Majorcan architects of the 20th century, whose extensive production illustrates the desire to achieve modernity through an empirical rationalism attentive to the topographic, climatic and constructive peculiarities of the place. The architecture of José Ferragut Pou is the result of a personal approach and intense experimentation that seeks to recover the traditional construction for the modern heritage, evoking the spatial and constructive tradition of the place, projecting the adaptation of the principles of rationalist orthodoxy and, in short, to propose an adequate architecture to the scarcity of means and to the economic circumstances that characterize the Spain of the autarky. In public architecture, he adopts the reflexive use of diverse resources that coexist orderly, from classicism, which provides, as a system, a series of efficient codes with a plastic richness and an adequate aesthetic, up to empirical rationalism whose disciplined sobriety would take the following decade until the modern constructive abstraction of the GESA building in Palma (1963-1975) and the church of the Porciúncula (1965-1968).
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Ferrer Forés, J. J. (2019). El legado moderno de José Ferragut Pou en Mallorca. REIA: Revista Europea de Investigación en Arquitectura, (14), 75-92. http://reia.es/REIA14_05_Web.pdf



