House of Libertarian Naturism

This is an ongoing research project in which we materialize, through an exploration of various archives, the House of Libertarian Naturism. This house is based on Alfonso Martínez Rizo’s ideas for the Ciudad Campo (Country City), but it is transversally connected to other authors and bodies of knowledge from the first three decades of the 20th century in Spain.

Naturism flourished in Spain in close association with the anarchist libertarian movement. Naked bodies as catalysts for social and sexual transformation, as well as for changes in food, medicine, ecology, and politics.

A century after its formulation (1925–1932), we gather and recall the wisdom of this project in geobiological and organic terms.

It is an architecture of the naked body that summons the naturist assembly in Spain on the eve of the great conflict of the Civil War: multiple bodies in contact, building social structures and environment. Inspired by emerging sciences of the time, such as oceanography and ecology itself, and linking sun and earth, aquifers and stars. An architecture of somatic agency, non‑logocentric, of the exposed body. Madreporites and corals of flesh.

This design‑based research is part of ARQUILIB, a broader project in which María Auxiliadora Gálvez Pérez is a member of the research team.