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For Isabel Pérez-Villanueva, "The Residence is García Lorca, Dalí and Buñuel, but it is not just that, and even that is not fundamental." The Residencia was an institution much more varied and subtle, which was part of the well-thought and liberal reformist project that the Institución Libre de Enseñanza prompted through the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios and, as documented in this book, it always maintained an internal consistency in which nothing was left to improvisation.

In these pages, Isabel Pérez-Villanueva offers a complete radiography of this unique body of higher education, a center that irradiated international culture and science as a whole, including both the male group, called "college" - and female one, "Ladies." She details the daily life in the Residencia in its different areas of activity until 1936: the first building on Fortuny St., and its subsequent site in the Upper Racetrack, the residents, the educational and cultural activities, sports, excursions, the Fellowship Society, the publishing house, and the library. She also delves into the running of the Residencia de Señoritas, with a description of the activities, the residents, and its international dimension.

PAPERBACK. 14 × 21,5 cm, 800 pp.
243 ILLUSTRATIONS
ISBN: 978-84-938860-1-1