UN VIAJE EN EL TIEMPO: EL POBLE ESPANYOL DE MONTJUÏC

The Poble Espanyol in Montjuic is an enclosure where the architectural tradition of the towns of Spain is recreated through the appropriation of the typical elements of its architecture. It was built for the Universal Exhibition of Barcelona in 1929 and still survives as a distribution center for popular handicrafts, as well as a space for leisure and culture. To carry out the realization of the Poble ’s project, a series of travels were made to Spain between 1927 and 1928, where hundreds of photographs, notes and travel sketches in notebooks were taken, which until today remain hidden. The main topic of the present investigation is the demonstration that the trips were essential in the final result of the project; without which it would have been very different. The travels gave the Poble a complexity to overcome the generalized schematization of analogous projects. To achieve our goal, the collection, classification and analysis of all the material that was collected during the travels, extracted from public and private funds, including the discovery of unpublished material: the travel notebooks, that allows us to deepen in the ‘making off’ of the Poble Espanyol, were made . Keywords: Architectural heritage, Universal Exhibition of Barcelona of 1929, urban scenario, travel notebooks.