Neo-Mudéjar

Neo-Mudéjar
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Escuelas Aguirre (now the Casa Árabe)

The Neo-Mudéjar is an architectural movement which originated in Spain and emerged as a revival of the Mudéjar architecture. It appeared in the late 19th century in Madrid, and soon spread to other regions of the country. Such architects as Emilio Rodríguez Ayuso perceived the Mudéjar art as characteristical and exclusive Spanish style. They started to construct buildings using some of the features of the ancient style, as horseshoe arches and the use of the abstract shaped brick ornamentations for the façades.

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The first example of the Neo-Mudéjar style was the Madrid's now-demolished bullring, designed by Rodríguez Ayuso. The style became then a strong, almost "compulsory" reference for the construction of bullfight rings all around Spain and beyond the fronteers, to Portugal and the Hispanoamerican countries.

In Madrid it became one of its most representative styles, not only for public buildings, as Escuelas Aguirre or the Bullring of Las Ventas but also for housing. The use of cheap materials, mainly brick for exteriors, made it a popular style in the new neighborhoods.

The Neo-Mudéjar was often combined with Neo-Gothic by architects as Francisco de Cubas, Antonio María Repullés y Vargas or Francisco Jareño. After the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 in Seville, another stream of Neo-Mudéjar features appeared: the Andalusian Architectural Regionalism. The Plaza de España or the Diario ABC newspaper headquarters in Madrid are examples of this new style that combined traditional Andalusian architecture with Mudéjar features.

List of notable Neo-Mudéjar buildings

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