Estudios de urbanismo y arquitectura de los siglos XIX y XX desde la óptica de la Historia del Arte. Cuestiones metodológicas y aproximación a las fuentes

Abstract

Before completing a doctoral dissertation on 19th and 20th century architecture and city planning from the standpoint of Art History, the specific characteristics of these fields concretely in these chronological periods determine the appearance of a seriesof points in the debate. The first is the diverse nature of the aforementioned disciplines;the second the freedom that characterized the architecture of the period; and the third, which is also one of its virtues, the breadth and heterogeneity of the sources. In this way, as a first objective of my personal experience, I bring to the young researchers some succinct brush strokes in a way of guiding them through the current gauntlet of documentation and, in the second place, I endeavour to shed light on the problems in methodology that come up, just as solutions, without wanting to impose general or specific conclusions, intending rather to enhance the debate.