Democratic Memorial

Imatge inicial

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  • Year: 2001
  • Authors: MBM Arquitectes, Enric Satué y Josep Maria Civit.

Circular glass box 4 m in diameter. Installed in 2001, this monument is an act of historical justice with the 120 teachers who were separated from the Catalan university at the beginning of the dictatorship and that reminds us of the spirit of excellence and Catalanness that the dictatorship tried to destroy.

Of the 121 names of the Memorial, only 3 are women's names.

Learn more about the authors and their work

This monument of joint authorship, is the result of a triple collaboration:

  • MBM Arquitectes: is an architecture studio founded in 1962 by Oriol Bohigas, Josep Maria Martorell and David Mackay with headquarters in the city of Barcelona.
    Previously, these architects were linked to the R Group (1951-1961), a group of architects influenced by rationalism and GATCPAC, connecting with international currents such as Neoliberty or contextualism.
    His work has had a strong impact in Barcelona, especially at the time of the Barcelona Olympic Games, where they proposed a pragmatic and functional architecture.
     
  • Enric Satué: is one of the benchmarks of graphic design in our country. He was the designer of the first logo and graphic identity of the UPF.

     He is also the author, for example, of the head of El Periódico, the cover designs of the Editorial Alfaguara, the design of the magazine CAU (of the Association of Matchers of Barcelona), the official poster of the Olympic Games of Barcelona 92 or the logos of the Cervantes Institute, the MNAC or the Up&Down discotheque.
     

  • Josep Maria Civit: he is one of the most recognized directors of photography in Catalan cinema. He also worked as a lighting consultant for the Science Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona and as a consultant in the expansion of the Reina Sofía National Museum in Madrid. It should be noted that it is considered one of the great collectors of contemporary art in Catalonia, known as the Civit Collection.

 

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