Residencia de Estudiantes
The Residencia de Estudiantes ( Spanish for 'student residence') is a cultural center in Madrid .
The institution was in 1910 by the Junta para Ampliacion de Estudios founded and moved in 1915 to its current address, Colina los Chopos, in a group of newly constructed buildings in the neo- Mudejar style of the architect Antonio Flórez Urdapilleta (1877-1941). Its director Alberto Jiménez Fraud was enthusiastic about the British college system and pursued the concept of a living and meeting place for art and science and a meeting place for the domestic and foreign avant-garde . The concept of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza , founded by Francisco Giner de los Ríos in 1876 , also stood in the background .
The residents of the home included Federico García Lorca , Salvador Dalí , Luis Buñuel and the Nobel Prize winner Severo Ochoa . Miguel de Unamuno , Alfonso Reyes , Manuel de Falla , Juan Ramón Jiménez , José Ortega y Gasset , Pedro Salinas , Blas Cabrera , Eugeni d'Ors and Rafael Alberti were frequent guests.
Prominent guests from abroad were u. a. Albert Einstein , Paul Valéry , Marie Curie , Igor Stravinsky , John M. Keynes , Walter Gropius and Henri Bergson .
The heyday of the institution was 1910–36. This was followed by a decade-long interruption due to the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco , who rejected such bourgeois-liberal and modernist institutions, but ultimately the "resurrection" from 1986. Today the Residencia de Estudiantes functions again as a place to live and meet. 20 young artists and scientists live here, and public cultural activities are presented at the same time. Among the residents are Mercedes Cebrián , David Mayor , Miguel Álvarez-Fernández , Joaquín Pérez Azaústre and Eva Mendoza . There are also around 3,000 guests annually.
The Centro de Documentación contains the private archives of Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda , Jesús del Bal y Gay , Fernando de los Ríos and León Sánchez Cuesta .
Since 1990 the Residencia has been active again as a publisher.
literature
- John Crispin: Oxford y Cambridge en Madrid: la Residencia de Estudiantes, 1910-1936, y su entorno cultural . Publicaciones La isla de los ratones, 1981.
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Coordinates: 40 ° 26 ′ 26.8 " N , 3 ° 41 ′ 17" W.