Edificio Rockefeller

Edificio Rockefeller
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Opening 1932

Edificio Rockefeller (literally Rockefeller Building) is the popular name of a building opened in 1932 in the Spanish city of Madrid as headquarters of Instituto Nacional de Física y Química (National Institute of Physics and Chemistry).

Located within the central campus of the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), so named because its construction and equipment, according to the project by architects Manuel Sánchez Arcas and Luis Lacasa, were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The architects were selected to bring to the building the new principles of rationalist functionalism. [1]

It owes its historical reputation for the work performed until the Civil War. Some of the most important physical and chemical scientific history of Spain, Blas Cabrera, Miguel Catalan and Enrique Moles, were part of the first Spanish school of physics and physical chemistry.

References

  1. ↑ Lafuente1, A and Saraiva, T. (2004). The Urban Scale of Science and the Enlargement of Madrid (1851-1936). Social Studies of Science, vol. 34(4): 531-569.

Coordinates: 40°26′30″N 3°41′17″W / 40.4417°N 3.6881°W / 40.4417; -3.6881

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