The exhibition With Love from Spain in Aalborg, Denmark, is a collaboration between Utzon Center and the Aarhus School of Architecture. It is based on the research project “Escandinavia - Architectural dialogues between Denmark and Spain”, which investigates the fortunate parallelisms, influences and translations between Nordic and Spanish architectural cultures. The origin of this long-term affinity is to be found in the significant interest that Spanish architects had in Nordic architecture, extensively focused on its Modern Masters: Alvar Aalto, Erik Gunnar Asplund, Sigurd Lewerentz, Sverre Fehn, Arne Jacobsen, and Jørn Utzon.
Some of the most renowned Spanish architects of the XXth century –such as Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza, Miguel Fisac, Josep María Sostres, Alejandro de la Sota and Rafael Moneo- have acknowledged the influence of the Nordic masters on their work, whose presence can be detected in several of their masterpieces. Through decades, the Spanish architect Felix Solaguren Beascoa has provided an extensive presentation of the significant impact that Scandinavian architecture has had on several generations of Spanish architects in the second half of the twentieth century.
