Rodrigo Almonacid Canseco (Teruel, 1974) holds a degree in Architecture with the Extraordinary End of Degree Award from the E.T.S. Architecture of the University of Valladolid (1999), and a PhD cum laude in Architecture for the thesis Arne Jacobsen: the codified landscape (2013).

Associate Professor in the area of “Architectural Composition” of the Department of Theory of Architecture and Architectural Projects of the E.T.S.A. Valladolid, teaching since the academic year 2004-05 in subjects of History of Architecture, Architectural Composition, Contemporary Architecture and Industrial Design. Postgraduate professor in the “Master in Research and Innovation in Architecture. Intervention in Heritage, Rehabilitation and Regeneration” in that center since 2014-15.

His research has focused mainly on questioning or revising certain commonplaces directly related to the established narrative on the evolution of Modern Architecture, opting for tangential approaches from the following lines of research: analysis of the theoretical and historiographical foundations of the first Modernity and its relationship with the History of Architecture; highlighting the links of modern architecture with industrial evolution and its technological application in the development of new models (glassbox, licharchitektur); analysis of the theoretical and artistic foundations in the construction of the graphic and photographic visual story from the experiments of the artistic avant-garde; discussion about the forms of dissemination of modern architecture in specialized media and its alignment with marketing and advertising strategies in the postwar period. In the Spanish national sphere, research has focused on investigating certain periods of transition from the origin to the consolidation of Modernity in Spain, considering these lines of work: the advent of the avant-garde in the late 1920s to Spanish territory, the ways of importing modern foreign models, the debate on their acceptance and rejection in the 1930s and 1940s, and the alternatives opened during Franco’s autarchy as a complex transition to modern architecture in the Spanish postwar period in the 1950s and 1960s.

The linking of these lines of research with technological, artistic, urban, cultural and patrimonial phenomena makes it possible to outline certain accounts of modern and contemporary architecture with an integral vision that facilitates the understanding of the facts, transcending the mere disciplinary field of the Theory of Architecture in which the author is framed.