Contemporaneity of Spanish Rural Architecture Intervention and Economic Sustainability
Art and Design Review, 2017, 5, 52-72 http://www.scirp.org/journal/adr ISSN Online: 2332-2004 ISSN Print: 2332-1997 Contemporaneity of Spanish Rural Architecture Intervention and Economic Sustainability Joan Curós Vilà1, M. Pilar Curós Vilà2 1Architectural Design Department, Architecture School of the Vallés (ETSAV), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 2Department of Accounting, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain How to cite this paper: Curós Vilà, J., & Abstract Curós Vilà, M. P. (2017). Contemporaneity th of Spanish Rural Architecture Intervention From the second half of the 20 century onwards, Spanish rural architecture and Economic Sustainability. Art and De- has suffered a transformation regarding its farming and ranching model. The sign Review, 5, 52-72. economic unsustainability of the family economy has led to further action for https://doi.org/10.4236/adr.2017.51005 the viability of the system. This transformation has meant a new mindset to Received: November 4, 2016 the owner of the farm and livestock, who had to consider whether continuity Accepted: February 13, 2017 was given to the exploitation or the countryside/field was changed and Published: February 16, 2017 adapted to a new use such as rural tourism, restoration, or for collective uses Copyright © 2017 by authors and such as holiday camps, cultural centers or others. Owners who have decided Scientific Research Publishing Inc. to continue the exploitation they were developing have had to industrialize it This work is licensed under the Creative and thus extend it in a considerable percentage. That has meant the need to Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0).
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