Ciudad Horizonte: el desencuentro entre Sáenz de Oíza y el equipo de arquitectos del Hogar del Empleado

Resumen

Saénz de Oíza was linked during the 1950s to the architects team who worked for the charitable association El Hogar del Empleado, mainly designing social housing in Madrid. There is a turning point in the team where Oíza dissociates himself from the rest, consolidating his solo career. Multiple issues converge in this rupture: the developmentalism of the 60s and the housing construction liberation, his relationship with businessman Huarte or his approach to other collaborators. This article explores this change of direction in a key project of the team: Ciudad Horizonte which reflects not only the aforementioned issues but also their different interests towards foreign references and a differentiation in their way of projecting, which polarizes between architecture or urbanism. This change of positioning towards the discipline itself explains more deeply the differences that occurred beyond the context changes.