La composición de la imagen arquitectónica y el noticiario de Estado. España 1943-1981 [The composition of the architectural image and the newsreel of State. Spain 1943-1981]

Abstract: The Noticiario y Documentales Cinematográficos, known as NO-DO and made between 1943 and 1981, gathers social achievements during the dictatorship and transition to democracy in Spain. It allows us to study the cinematographic image of the different types of housing, both the isolated and the collective, vernacular and urban, anonymous and renowned architect’s housing. This architecture, which is mainly institutionally promoted, is registered in specific social and economic conditions.Architectural contents and cinematographic narrative form used in the newsreel become an alternative format to make the housing politics and its image known to the general public. Therefore, it constitutes an example of the documentary of State and its sound and visual rhetoric. The evolution of residential housing and its audiovisual presentation can be analysed through the propaganda and informative character of the documentaries. Those images contribute to architectural knowledge, understood as the exploration of the image in movement.