Jordi Brunet Forasté. Models to arrange mass tourism

Abstract

The text, the result of a series of interviews, revises Jordi Brunet Forasté’s unknown work (1926-2014). He was a model maker who worked with some of the most important Spanish architects in the second half of the 20th century – Coderch, Sert, Bonet, Cano Lasso, Perpiñá, Bohigas, Moreno- Barberá, among others – developing the models of some of their major projects. Firstly, the text analyzes the evolution in time of his model studio; then, there is a brief review of his main work, from his period as a restorer of Gaudí’s models in the workshops of La Sagrada Familia to the models made for those famous architects; finally, the study emphasizes those models for arrangement of massive sun and beach tourism made by Brunet in the early 60’s, in the middle of the Spanish development period.

Keywords

• jordi brunet forasté
• maquetista
• taller de maquetas
• turismo de masas