University City of Madrid
[5] José Casares Gil, Modesto López Oteri, Julio Palacios and Antonia Simonena were tasked with research of the most respected universities of Europe and North America.[1] The campus covered 320 hectares (790 acres) on a site in the western margin of Madrid, on a plan that drew much from American models.[7] The building designs were influenced by European avant-garde architecture of the period, and the overall layout kept the campus closely integrated with the city of Madrid.[1] The first collaborative work of Torroja and Sanchez Arcas was the pavilion of the Construction Commission of the university city, completed in June 1931.In its early years Agromán obtained major contracts in public works and buildings, and was involved in some important projects in the 1930s including the University City of Madrid.In 1932 the Clinical Hospital was built to the design of Sánchez Arcas and Torroja, and work started on Agustín Aguirre's Faculty of Philosophy and Liberal Arts.Student Residences designed by Luis Lacasa were built in 1935, after which the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) brought work to a halt.The Republican militias managed to halt the columns at the command of General Varela and avoid the fall of Madrid into rebel hands.It includes more than thirty student residences, and facilities of the Spanish Open University (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).