"We are not architects but claim the aesthetic value of these buildings. This is a very maligned architecture, people go through la Albufereta and thinks it is an aberration and we see a lot of beauty. Not a fad distasteful, but it was a solution to tourism now, "explains the photographer David Sardaña Alicante, coauthor together with the designer Inigo Lanz blog on architectural rationalism in the province (www.racionalismolevantino.es) from raised on the coast in the 60's and 70 buildings, which have called Levantine rationalism. The goal is to catalog the most notable buildings and generate graphic works, photographs and illustrations, through the interpretation of these constructions.

Rationalist architecture is a movement that emerged after World War II, predominantly in Europe and the U.S. in the mid-twentieth century and has in Mies Van der Rohe Le Corbusier its greatest exponents. "In Spain this movement comes later, with the opening of the '60s, when the tourism boom occurs and you have to give a solution to accommodate visitors who start coming to the coast," says Sardaña.

These buildings are scattered around the coast of the province, "the S'Albufera the beach of San Juan, El Campello ... raised between 60 70 buildings, which take fashion design and materials of rationalism and adapt their local characteristics and needs ", says the photographer, with examples like the Vistamar building, known as the Boat, designed by Juan Guardiola, la Tower or the Buzzer Alacant (in Albufereta) and La Isleta or the Watchtower among others, in El Campello.

The authors consider as elements of this architecture of simple rectangular floor facades facing the sea and built of longitudinal terraces, the back part for galleries, stairs, elevators, blinds to hide these spaces or exposed brick in the lining of facades.

"We want to get another view of these buildings, which people stop and look at it differently. Do not claim a scientific work, but a citizen because we were missing the photographs of this suitable architecture, for which, surely we still need some distance to assess and judge" claims Sardaña, who declares that the aesthetics of the 60's and 70 was defended through lamps and furniture, "but this architecture will become part of the Alicante heritage within 20 or 30 years, what happens is that we must start defend it, and not to ignore as i has happened in  other recent cases of heritage 'demolition  in reference to the demolition of the cafeteria Isleta in Albufereta.

Source: Diario Informacion