Lost Architectures: 1. Jorba Laboratories, Miguel Fisac 1967-99

Lost Architectures: 1. Jorba Laboratories, Miguel Fisac 1967-99

20 years without the Pagoda

The destruction of the Spanish architectural heritage of the 20th century is being systematic.

Few buildings of that brave, daring, technological, and beautiful architecture for its simplicity and its search for programmatic, constructive and economic efficiency, are surviving speculation.

For this reason, and as the beginning of a series tribute to those lost architectures, I begin with Jorba Laboratories, by Miguel Fisac, better known as "La Pagoda", now demolished 20 years ago, and which may be one of the most bleeding points of that wild speculation that only saves the old, that not always the good