Casa Lurbe / Abalosllopis Arquitectos + Jordi Marset

Lurbe`s house was built in 1932 in the Cabanyal neighborhood, a traditional fishing district on the shores of the Mediterranean. Just 100 meters away, the house of the writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez with its imposing gallery of Ionic pilasters and caryatids facing the sea, also represented the aspirations of its first owners. After the civil war in 1939, the house of Blasco Ibáñez was expropriated, transformed into a recreational headquarters for the Falange, uninhabited, forgotten, and demolished to be rebuilt 70 years later; Lurbe`s house, however, survived the postwar period thanks to the black market. It was inhabited and re-inhabited, renovated, and worn by use.