Valencia Bus Station.
- Authors: CALVÉ MASCARELL, Óscar
- Place, Editorial, Year: València, Council of Environment, Water, Infrastructure and Territory , 2023.
- Publication types: Llibre
-
Abstract:
The publication of the book 'Estación de autobuses de Valencia. Proyectos soñados y arquitecturas vividas' highlights an aspect that has scarcely been dealt with: the history of the city's longing for an infrastructure capable of reorganising the chaos derived from the appearance of the intercity bus. A circumstance that emerged precisely in the 1920s and which, as the title anticipates, stimulated the imagination of famous architects who drew up projects that were almost never executed, but also the efficiency of notable engineers. The latter was manifested in two infrastructures that met with very different fates. All of this is covered in this small but comprehensive volume which, above all, offers the reader a journey back in time through facilities corresponding to a specific function and typology.
- The emergence of the bus in the city
- A first station project for Valencia in 1929
- The ephemeral pretension in 1931 of a group of architects: Tejero, Sedano and De la Mora
- 1934, a prolific year in initiatives
- The halt of the Santonja building
- The project by Luis Basset Badía
- Goerlich at the service of the ambitious municipal aspiration
- The return of ideas in the post-war period. Goerlich's role
- Another unsatisfied municipal project
- The private hand and ‘the first station’ in Valencia
- Two stations for the reborn city
Index
State of the matter
A look back as epilogue
Details
