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Urban Projects and Megastructures: Modernist Campuses

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Quite a lot of the university proposals developed in the sixties had a strong urban component, encompassed within the theoretical developments of the time, which was an appropriate scope for university projects, with a variety of functions and a diagrammatic condition arising from the overlapping linkage between their components and the demands for growth. The reconsideration of the teaching structures implied a greater importance of the departmental system. Within the European trend of promoting community values, the university appeared as an ideal community, which should not only be places for teaching but also places for relationships to develop promoting social exchanges. All this took place in a more liberal general context in which concepts such as change, flexibility or spontaneity were well present.

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  1. School of Engineering and Architecture (EINA), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    Basilio Tobías

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    Carmen Díez Medina

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    Javier Monclús

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Tobías, B. (2018). Urban Projects and Megastructures: Modernist Campuses. In: Díez Medina, C., Monclús, J. (eds) Urban Visions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59047-9_10

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