This Thesis analyzes the Galician process of the recovery of the modernity in architecture, after the parentheses represented by the Spanish Civil War and the immediate autarky. A process that takes place between 1954 and 1973, since its inception with projects linked to the celebration of the Santiago de Compostela’s Holy Year to the academic and institutional consolidation with the creation of the Galician College of Architects and the School of Architecture of La Coruña.
From the study of the historical context and the state of the question, it analyses the evolution of the modern principles through a series of architectural themes: industry and technology, open floor plan, naval metaphor, integration of the arts, natural house, public image, rural territory, regionalism, sacred space, urban landmarks, memory and identity and scale of the design.
Different architectures are put in relation each of these themes, designed by local and foreign authors through successive generations, and obtaining a set of projects, both built and unbuilt, which show a critical and thoughtful recovery of the modern principles, coinciding with the review of the modern movement that occurs worldwide in the same period.
The modern recovery in Galician architecture finds its uniqueness as a peripheral process, regardless of the theoretical debates and without a supportive, yet offers an abundant wealth of examples of multiple scales and typologies, seeking their purpose in itself regional identity and tradition, a modernity characterized with its own distinctive value.